It’s a crazy idea to go against your government, but if your against the War, not fueling it with your tax dollars maybe isn’t such a crazy idea.
Total Outlays (Federal Funds): $2,387 billion
MILITARY: 51% and $1,228 billion
NON-MILITARY: 49% and $1,159 billion
Links:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/251575_wartax10.html
Twenty percent is past military which I assume means veterans. Although I’m anti-war, I feel that we should take responsibility for the vast problems that we have created among veterans by sending them to war.
Hi. Your pie doesn’t look quite right. Where is the large piece that shows all the $ needed for interest on the national debt? Pam
You might want to listen to interviews with 6 different war tax resisters with a variety of motivations and methods to their resistance – along with lots of other good interview on peace, justice and care for creation – on the Northern Spirit Radio program called Spirit In Action. This past spring there were 3 such hour-long programs, and here are links to those programs:
http://www.northernspiritradio.org/northernspiritradio/radioweb.exe/showinfo?showid=415194900769
http://www.northernspiritradio.org/northernspiritradio/radioweb.exe/showinfo?showid=415918246581
http://www.northernspiritradio.org/northernspiritradio/radioweb.exe/showinfo?showid=417962528880
Listen, enjoy and learn…