National Priorities Project - Interactive Tax Chart

Enter how much you have paid in income tax, and you will see 30% of the money is spent on the war machine and the veterans. the most disturbing of all is the fact that we are paying 19% of the collected money interest on the national debt! The future is bleak when a country throw away money like that: almost 50% of it!
National Priorities Project - Interactive Tax Chart

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