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The Average US Taxpayer Spent $4,049 on War and Weapons Last Year (truthout.org)
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A new analysis released Thursday estimates that the average American taxpayer shelled out over $4,000 to the federal government last year “for militarism and its support systems” such as the Pentagon, whose already-massive annual budget is poised to surge to $1.5 trillion if President Donald Trump gets his way. The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies found in…

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago*

I'll take my refund in cash. With interest.

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Adding insult to injury, because of the pipeline of equipment to the police, we don't even get cool cheap military surplus like during the Cold War.

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    • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    As you may already know, US debt is so huge that interest is a bigger expense than even the military. FYI, past military spending and interest payments for its spending accounts for more than the US debt level.

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    [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    These numbers didn't add up at all. This article makes it sound like the average family is paying 30k in taxes... They're not.

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    [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Lol. If only there was a way for the population to determine who becomes the govt...

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