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Your Tax Dollars at War   : Information Clearing House

Your Tax Dollars at War   : Information Clearing House
Your Tax Dollars at War

"The most enormous war machine the world has ever known"

US radio host Dennis Bernstein and investigative reporter Dave Lindorff illustrate just how much US tax money goes towards the country's war chest

"People have to realize that 53 cents of every dollar that they are paying into taxes is going to the military to an astonishing figure there is an enormous, enormous amount of money being blown on war an killing and destruction."......

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