With that revenue, we pay for...a lot. Some of the services we fund our government to do include: public education, water, roads, internal and international security, social security, environmental care and most recently, healthcare - along with a plethora of other 'rights' we are entitled to. We in turn, we also pay for the salaries of the President, Vice President, oh and the Presidents’ vacations (The wo(man) needs a break every now and then).

The cool thing though, is you can calculate where you’re money goes to by following this link – in which it provides a break down of your tax dollars in the BIG picture. But that is for another day...and for 2014.