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How Are US Tax Dollars Being Spent? Hint: The Pentagon Is Cashing In
- bell-cot 3y agoLooks like straight button-pushing, for folks who share truthout's emotions. Here's some quick gov't numbers on were all the money went (in 2022) - https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf (See page 109.) Summary - the Pentagon got ~12% of the budget. Interest on the national debt was ~7%...and probably growing far faster. > The solution is a budget that changes these priorities to divest from militarism and invest in human needs here and around the world — something that’s only possible if taxpayers take a more active role. Since those "human needs" seem to already be getting ~6X the funding that the Pentagon is, is truthout shouting for change...to the current status quo?