Average American Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA

As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the uncomfortable fact that an “astronomical amount” of the money sent to the IRS each year goes not to funding education or a single-payer healthcare system the U.S. supposedly can’t afford, but straight into the bloated coffers of the Pentagon. “Congress appropriates more for U.S. military spending than the next eight countries combined, but year after year refuses… Read more…

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