Praise for Death and Taxes Scroll wheel or cursor buttons zoom. Click and hold to drag around. on the Martha Stewart Show... citizen journalism What is it? meets Copywrite WallStats.com 2008 on Microsoft's Channel 10... "Death and Taxes" is a large representational graph and poster of the federal budget. It contains over 500 programs and departments and almost every program that receives over 200 million dollars annually. The data is straight from the president's 2009 budget request and will be debated, amended, and approved by Congress to begin the fiscal year. All of the item circles are proportional in size to their spending totals and the percentage change from 2008 is included to spot trends and disproportion. You would be hard pressed to find a more complex budget. The visualization conveys a tremendous amount of information in a small space, well 24x36" "A stupendous graph. I've always been a fan of clever design imparting huge amounts of information in a graphical display." -simplecomplexity.net -npr.org "I work in the DoD, and I must say that's quite a piece of work you've created. Working in DoD Engine Room requires a lot of graphical interpretation of the budget, and this is one of the most effective tools I've seen. I wish I had thought of it." -Tom Paisly, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense "Great poster! I just got 2 of the 2008, one for work and one for home." -Maureen Madden, CEO Mission Director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center "Talk about representing something extremely complex that perhaps very few people in the US government have a handle on. Well here it is. Laid out, easy to read and compare. With data straight from the White House" -Avinash Kaushik, Occam's Razor "I got my copy of your graph in the mail. From one graph designer to another, great work! I will put it beside my copy of Edward Tufte's "Napoleon's March" -- another great work in data organization." -Vaughn D. Taylor, LiberalRevolt.com "If you want a daily reminder of where all the tax money that doesn't go into your paycheck actually goes, then put this stunning new poster up on your wall. You may be relieved just to see what a magnificent display the people at budgetgraph.com can make materialize out of those dollars that seem to disappear so abstractly from your paycheck." -opencongress.org A fantastic visual guide" -Martha Stewart What is it really? "Death and Taxes" is more than just numbers. It is a uniquely revealing look at our national priorities, that fluctuate yearly, according to the wishes of the President, the power of Congress, and the will of the people. Thousands of pages of raw data have been boiled down to one poster that provides the most open and accessible record of our nations' spending than ever before. If you pay taxes, then you have paid for a small part of everything in the poster. "Death and Taxes" is an essential poster for any responsible citizen or information junkie. Who is it for? Everyone! This poster has been sent to over 50 members of congress, hundreds of schools, CEO's, government directors, and thousands of tax payers and everyday citizens both in the United States and all over the world. "Death and Taxes" is for the curious; those who want to know how the government is spending their money, those who want a factual look at our national priorities, and those who want to take a glimpse of the very near future (2009). "Death and Taxes" is also for those who appreciate high quality informative design. link to this page: http://www.WallStats.com/deathandtaxes/ Spread the word! meets inforgraphics 5,000 pages of budget documentation meets the BIG picture