tax time! :: Apr 9, 2003

As the US creeps up to our Federal tax filing deadline, I thought I might share this little tidbit from True Majority about exactly where those tax dollars are going.

"It's tax time when most of us learn how much we send to the Federal Government, but few of us really know where it goes. Well, here's how Congress allocates the money it controls..."

That big "X" represents the money we could reallocate by trimming the Pentagon budget just 15%. The retired admirals and generals who advise us agree we could do this just by canceling Cold War weapons systems like nuclear weapons and StarWars which do nothing to keep us safe.

With that savings, we could fund ALL of the following human needs at no additional taxpayer expense:

• Provide basic health and food to the world's poor: $12 billion
• Rebuild America's public schools over 10 years: $12 billion
• Reduce class size for grades 1-3 to 15 students per class: $11 billion
• Reduce debts of impoverished nations: $10 billion
• Provide health insurance to all uninsured American kids: $6 billion
• Increase federal funding for clean energy and energy efficiency: $6 billion
• Public financing of all federal elections: $1 billion
• Fully fund Head Start: $2 billion

Something to thing about, no?