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Last Year, You Spent More Than A Month’s Rent on Pentagon Contractors
A dollar by dollar look at how our taxes enrich military contractors — at the expense of things that actually make us secure. By Lindsay Koshgarian | April 10, 2024 Cover Illustration by Sarah Gertler / Institute for Policy Studies. The Roosevelt…
Breaking Down Your Tax Bill
Our tax dollars should make life better, not go to waste. But the average taxpayer had to shell out over $1,000 for military contractors alone last year. By Lindsay Koshgarian | April 19, 2023 Many of us rushed to file our taxes…
ABOUT THAT $900 YOU GAVE PENTAGON CONTRACTORS
This tax season, I’d rather fund green jobs and disease control than jets that spontaneously combust. Wouldn’t you? By Lindsay Koshgarian | April 13, 2022 Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Most of us want our tax dollars to be wisely used —…
OUR MILITARY BUDGET IS MORE LOPSIDED THAN EVER
Spending 12 times as much on our military as Russia didn’t prevent a war in Europe. It just deprived us of resources at home. By Lindsay Koshgarian | March 16, 2022 Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Congress recently announced a bipartisan budget…
How Excess Military Spending Blocks Building Back Better
Understanding why President Biden’s Build Back Better plan stalled requires consuming a big fat reality sandwich: The United States spends more on its military than the next eleven highest-spending countries combined and a much greater chunk of its economy than…
TO FIGHT POVERTY, CUT THE PENTAGON BUDGET
For me, the military wasn’t a way out of poverty. Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place. By T.J. Thompson | June 23, 2021 This article originally appeared in OtherWords. I grew up on the…
BIDEN’S UNCONSCIONABLE MILITARY BUDGET
With the Afghanistan War finally ending, we shouldn’t squander our “peace dividend” on costly weapons or military bloat. By Lindsay Koshgarian | June 2, 2021 First published in Other Words The Biden administration recently released its final budget proposal for fiscal year…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor