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Most of your taxes don’t go to things like roads or education. They go towards bombing brown people in the Middle East, and a smaller portion goes to programs
by dannyw 6y ago
Most of your taxes don’t go to things like roads or education.
They go towards bombing brown people in the Middle East, and a smaller portion goes to programs like Medicare.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agohttps://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/ https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
- Xixi 6y agoThat's the federal budget. Aren't things like road or education typically part of the state/city budgets? I'm not American, but I used to live in NYC, and thus paid my taxes there. I was always under the impression that: federal budget is for the armies/FBI/CIA/NSA/FDA and other three letters agencies. On the other hand state taxes, city taxes, and sales taxes are for roads, schools, hospitals, firefighters, police and the MTA. I'm surprised the federal budget even has a line item for Education, or Housing & Community!
- freeone3000 6y agoFederal funds support state efforts in eduction, and HUD's section 8 housing vouchers are direct aid to people.
- Karunamon 6y agoThat's strictly false. ~65% of the US budget is mandatory spending, and ~86% of that goes to things like social security, unemployment, Medicare, and so forth. Military spending is priority #3 by share of the budget, not priority #1. Even if this wasn't a falsehood, characterizing all military spending as "bombing brown people in the middle east" is ignorant, incendiary political flamebait.