Slideshow: Seven Tax Day Interactive Visualizations to Help Understand Where Your Money Goes

Today is Tax Day. While most Americans think their tax bill is fair, many have no idea where exactly their hard-earned money goes. Let's face it, many leaders in gove

Runner up Every Day Is Tax Day takes a more conceptual approach to enlightening us about how our professional effort oils the wheels of government. Tax contributions are translated into time.

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Another take on the time concept is What Do You Work For. This version shows us where our money would go if we started paying our taxes in full on January 1.

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This impressive idea doesn't work so well on your office computer. That's because Budget Climb is a Kinect video game. Watch the video to see how you can, hop, climb, and float through a bar chart world

For a good chuckle, this visualization called Can I Get a Receipt with That actually gives you a (fake) paper receipt for your taxes. The fun part is you can see how much each budget line item cost y

Lest all of these elaborate images of massive dollar figures leave you feeling over-burdened by government dues, this data visualization flips that emotional impulse on its head.

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Last but not least, the interactive slideshow Tax Mapper lets you compare spending over time by line item. Some costs just keep getting more expensive, like social security, others vacillate depend