Give us an application that turns budgets into interactive infographics

What I like in the west, and in particular among Americans, is their ability to count money. We often neglect this, and sometimes it seems that this is our main problem.

In 2015, people seem to have forgotten what democracy means. The government exists to serve the people, and the money collected in the form of taxes is supposed to be spent on what people want and need.

The new cloud application provides citizens of America and governments the opportunity for closer cooperation.

This application is called A Balancing Act and is developed by Engaged Public and Causelabs. It is an interactive infographic platform that allows users to see how the budget is distributed. Users can see various costs, their reduction or increase, tax changes, etc. General modeling allows any user playing with the tool to see how the budget is balanced.
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The tool is currently used in at least two municipalities: the state of Colorado and Hartford (Connecticut).

The state of Colorado spends its budget through the application, which allows citizens to easily see where their taxes are spent. Education and health care are the largest cost centers in Colorado, with a combined price of $ 6.9 billion.

Other municipalities also provide tax information on their public information portals, but not everybody can understand the unstructured data. And this tool will clearly show how exactly a citizen's money is spent. For example, a 40-year-old citizen who earns $ 65,000 a year can see that $ 783.61 is spent from his taxes on a public school fund, 94 cents for the maintenance of libraries and $ 147.99 for the care of lost prisoners.

Search for information on the service is made by postal code, and as you understand, is available only in the states. But it would be interesting to see the distribution of our taxes with you.