47% of your Federal Income Tax Dollar is Military (Or Related) Spending! [View All]

[JanMichael]

Or:

"How The "Unified Budget" Makes You Think Otherwise"

Of course the sneaky liars will say it's 17.5% but that's a misrepresentation.

http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm

HOW THESE FIGURES WERE DETERMINED

"War Resisters League creates this leaflet each year after the President releases a proposed budget. The figures here are from a line-by-line analysis of projected figures in the “Analytical Perspectives” book of the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2004. The percentages are federal funds, which do not include trust funds such as Social Security that are raised and spent separately from income taxes. What you pay (or don’t pay) by April 15, 2003, goes only to the federal funds portion of the budget. The government practice of combining trust and federal funds (the so-called “Unified Budget”) began in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. The government presentation makes the human needs portion of the budget seem larger and the military portion smaller."

So 47 cents of every one of those dollars goes to the military? Yikes...Almost makes us seem like some imperialistic, violent, nation, nah, that can't be.