part 4 5 charts/10 years
When we think about what the federal government spends on, the first things that might come to mind are the military or federal agencies. However, Washington’s primary activity is taking money from one group of people (including future generations in the form of debt) and giving it to another. The Heritage Budget Blueprint would tackle the trend of endless wealth transfers head-on.
Major benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare, sold to the public as being self-sufficient, are anything but. Thoughtful reforms to these programs in the blueprint would preserve and improve them for current and future beneficiaries and retirees by restraining their growth to a responsible rate.