GREEN SECTION
Follow the links for each sections, and answer the questions as you go!
PART ONE:
REVENUE REVIEW https://static.nationalpriorities.org/images/charts/2015/revenue-desk.png
PART TWO:
SPENDING 101 https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/
PART THREE:
SPENDING BREAKDOWN https://static.nationalpriorities.org/images/charts/2015/total-desk.png
PART FOUR:
ADDING IT ALL TOGETHER https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/borrowing-and-federal-debt/
PART FIVE:
WHO DO WE OWE https://static.nationalpriorities.org/images/fb101/2014/us-government-owes-money.png
ORANGE SECTION
For each image
A. Write the number
B. The Title of the Graphic
C. Your explanation/summary
1. ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM SPENDING IS MASSIVE
2. TWO-THIRDS OF ALL GOVERNMENT SPENDING WAS MANDATORY, 2013
3. TOTAL REVENUE & MANDATORY SPENDING
4. WHERE DOES YOUR TAX DOLLARS GO?
OPINION QUESTIONS:
6. Do you think this is easily fixed? Explain.
7. What do you think the government should cut its spending on? How would they have to do this?
8.
Pick one of the government solutions below. Read the article or watch the video (use headphones) and explain why this IS or IS NOT a good solution for our government.
SOLUTIONS?!!?
×Raise taxes on the rich! ×http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/would-taxing-rich-fix-deficit/
×Print more money! ×http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EobPnLZiOo8 ×
×Stop giving other countries money and pay off our debt! ×http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/07/the-budget-myth-that-just-wont-die-americans-still-think-28-percent-of-the-budget-goes-to-foreign-aid/ ×
×Stop giving other countries money and pay off our debt!×https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2013/05/06/how-much-foreign-aid-does-us-give-away/
×Cut military spending! ×http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/07/everything-chuck-hagel-needs-to-know-about-the-defense-budget-in-charts/ ×
×http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258 ×
×Cut the SNAP (Food Stamp) program… ×http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258 ×
×http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_21412568/face-facts-usa-food-stamp-costs × ×
9. Summarize what entitlements are in your own words.
10. In three sentences, explain what you learned today.
11. What was the most interesting thing you learned?
EXTRA:
MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF AMERICANS RECEIVE WELFARE BENEFITS
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/29/census-figures-show-more-than-one-third-americans-receiving-welfare-benefits/
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IF YOU ARE DONE WITH WEBQUEST:
Then, you can play the iCivics Game People's Pie. You may not be on any other website or you will lose your Internet privileges.
GOAL: Do you like to control your own money? In People’s Pie, you control the budget of the federal government! You choose how federal revenues should be raised and how taxpayers’ money should be spent. You must decide how to fund programs that are important to you, without setting taxes too high or borrowing too much money.
This is a great review. remember the different types of revenue and spending (entitlements) that we talked about.
https://www.icivics.org/games/peoples-pie