And of course the real costs are beyond quantification.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
– General Douglas MacArthur
Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? NPP's latest publication shows how the average household's tax dollars are spent for every state and 193 cities, towns and counties.
To the right you will find a running total of what taxpayers are spending on the Iraq War. This total is based on estimates from Congressional appropriations
The War in Iraq Costsxx
$165,260,248,812
See the cost in your community:
Compare to the cost of:
PRE-SCHOOL
KIDS' HEALTH
PUBLIC EDUCATION
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
PUBLIC HOUSING
WORLD HUNGER
AIDS EPIDEMIC
WORLD IMMUNIZATION
http://www.costofwar.com/What You Can Do:
• Bring the Stop the Merchants of Death Speakers Tour to your community to learn more about corporations profiting from the war and military occupation, paid for by your tax dollars. See www.warresisters.org/merchants_death.htm or call (212) 228-0450.
• Write the President and your representative and senators and demand that the military budget be cut.
• Write letters to the editor of your local paper. Send all of them copies of this flyer.
• Refuse to pay all or part of your income tax. Though illegal, thousands of Americans are openly participating in this form of protest. You can take control of your paycheck and avoid contributing to the military. Contact us for information or referral to a war tax resistance counselor near you, and check out www.warresisters.org/wtr.htm.
• Contribute resisted tax money to an organization working to help people (e.g., day care centers, health clinics, food banks, housing programs, human rights organizations) or to an alternative fund that pools tax money from resisters and gives grants to human needs and peace groups.
• Contact the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, PO Box 150553, Brooklyn, NY 11215, (800)269-7464; email: nwtrcc@nwtrcc.com . Support the Peace Tax Fund bill to allow 100% of your taxes to fund nonmilitary programs: (888) 732-2382