How Much of Your Taxes Goes to Farm Subsidies?
$982
Per Taxpayer (9 yrs)
$109
Per Taxpayer/Year
$1,122
Per Household (9 yrs)
$125
Per Household/Year
Calculate Your Share
Farm Subsidies vs. Other Federal Spending (Annual)
What $147 Billion Could Buy Instead
2,200,000
teachers for a year
School teachers' salaries
5,800,000
full Pell Grants
Pell Grants
490,000
beds for a year
VA hospital beds
73,500
miles of 2-lane road
Miles of highway
6
years of NASA funding
NASA budgets
234
years of NPS budget
National parks
14,700
municipal water systems
Clean water projects
How We Calculated This
We divided $147 billion in total FSA farm subsidy payments (2017–2025) by the approximately 150 million individual federal income tax filers. The per-household figure uses 131 million U.S. households. Your personalized estimate uses a simplified effective federal tax rate and farm subsidies' share of the federal budget (~0.4%).
These figures include only direct FSA payments tracked by OpenSubsidies. They do not include crop insurance premium subsidies (~$10B/year), SNAP/nutrition spending (~$100B/year), or other USDA programs — which would significantly increase the total.