where’s the money really going?

nathan from flowingdata.com (via @flowingdata) shared a link to recovery.gov which shows this lovely chart:

based on this chart, it looks like the other category ($8B) is roughly 60% of the energy category ($43B) rather than 19%. just another example highlighting the importance of a standard scale for meaningful comparisons.

here’s my quick redo:

notice how much more money appears to be going to tax relief when viewed on a standard scale?