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Military Spending Gets Forty Per Cent of Every Income Tax Dollar

Military Spending Gets Forty Per Cent of Every Income Tax Dollar: "Military Spending Gets Forty Per Cent of Every Income Tax Dollar
By Pamela Schwartz
04/06/07 'ICH' -- - Northampton, MA -- As taxpayers prepare to meet this year's April 16th tax deadline, they may want to consider that almost 40 cents of every tax dollar is spent on past and present military spending, according to a newly released publication by the National Priorities Project (NPP), a non-profit research organization that examines the local impact of federal spending policies. "

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