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Congress and the president also have to determine how much income, or revenue, is available. The majority of the government's revenue comes from different kinds of taxes-for example, individual income taxes provide about half of the federal government's revenue. The rest comes mostly from payroll and corporate taxes. To create a new program, the government normally gets the money either by cutting funds to an existing program OR by raising taxes.



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