It's tax day on an unusual date this year, but the taxes are largely for the same old misguided purposes,
including corporate welfare, fossil fuel subsidies, mass incarceration,
militarizing police, and above all waging and preparing for wars.
Trump's 2021 budget request varies
little from past years. It includes 55% of discretionary spending for
militarism.1 That leaves 45% of the money Congress votes on for everything else:
environmental protections, energy, education, transportation,
diplomacy, housing, agriculture, science, disease pandemics, etc., etc.
Click here to quickly email your Representative and Senators to urge them to spend your money more wisely.
The priorities of the U.S. government have been wildly out of touch with both morality and public opinion for decades, and have been moving in the wrong direction even as awareness of the crises facing us has inched upward.
It would cost less than 3% of U.S. military spending, according to UN figures, to end starvation on earth, and about 1% to provide the world with clean drinking water. Less than 7% of military spending would wipe out poverty in the United States.2
Click here to tell Congress to wait no longer to move some of our resources from militarism to human and environmental needs.
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Peace,
The World BEYOND War team
Footnotes:
1) National Priorities Project: "President Trump's 2021 Budget Prioritizes the Pentagon"
2) World BEYOND War: "We Need $2 Trillion/Year For Other Things"
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