It's tax day and what could be more fun than a look at some of the places that America's tax dollars are going!
Percentage of US discretionary budget spent on education and other social services: 8%
Percentage of US discretionary budget spent for military: 53% - 57% (depending on how you calculate it)
US Military Budget as a percent of World total military expenditures: 49%
Number of Americans classified as “food insecure” in 2004: 38 million
Number of Americans without health insurance: 45 million
Total direct aid to Israel 1948-2006: $255 billion
Total Cost of US Support for Israel: $1.688 trillion
Federal aid for each resident in Louisiana in 2002: $1,500
Direct U.S. aid for each Israeli citizen in 2003: $581
Direct U.S. aid for each Ethiopian citizen in 2004: $2.50
Percentage of U.S. foreign aid that goes to Israel: 27%
Population of Israel as percentage of total world population: 0.1%
Number of Palestinian minors killed by Israeli security forces (2000-2007): 814
Total number of Palestinians injured or killed (September 2000-April 2007): 31,296
Number of bullets fired by Israeli security forces in the first week of the second Intifada: 1,300,000
Number of unexploded Israeli bombs strewn across South Lebanon after the 2006 war: 1,000,000 or 1.4 per resident
Slightly modified from the 1040 ez tax form available at
http://www.archive.org/details/1040WAR
This came to me via Mazin Qumsiyeh, but I think it's been floating out in the world wide web for a while...Chart from the War Resister's League.
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