Talk:Expenditures in the United States federal budget

Mandatory != entitlement

This article needs to disentangle the concepts of mandatory versus entitlement spending. Entitlement programs are supported by mandatory funding, but many other programs are suported by mandatory funds as well. For example, it's clear from this visualization that the Departments of Labor, Agriculture, and the Treasury are also supported mainly by mandatory funding. It's thus incorrect to say that the federal executive departments are only associated with discretionary funding. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 19:30, 10 April 2011 (UTC) WHY IS SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE FEDERAL BUDGET? SS IS SELF FUNDED BY THE PEOPLE WHO USE IT. THIS WAS CLEARLY WRITTEN BY SOME RIGHT WING NUTJOB WITH AN AXE TO GRIND. WL SHOULD BE BETTER THAN THIS. THE FEDS COULD START PAYING BACK THE 3.6 TRILLION THEY SOLE FROM SS--NOW THAT WOULD BE A BUDGET ITEM, IT'LL ALSO NEVER HAPPEN.

Table

Would it be so very very very hard to include a table (NOT A PIE-CHART) listing spending areas? Note that I clicked here from another Federal Budget page where such a table would be appropriate but was missing.Jamesdowallen (talk) 04:47, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

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Discretionary spending section

Not sure why the defense expenditures are not mentioned even just by a total number. Given how they represent over 50% of discretionary spending funds for the last couple of years, that's a very pertinent information, and should be at least briefly mentioned in that section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.234.40.164 (talk) 00:36, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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Possible Violation of NPOV

Specifically the section dealing with the military budget has an area discussing reforms & criticisms of the US military budget. If there are going to be criticisms & reforms added to one of the budget categories then it should be in all of them. If that is not going to be done then the previously mentioned section should be removed in order to achieve NPOV. Otherwise there structure of the article contributes to a bias against US military expenditures inadvertently.

I think it's important to reference two parts within the NPOV policy that talk about how to achieve NPOV, Article Structure along with Due & Undue Weight. GRosado 02:06, 11 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GRosado (talk • contribs)