What Proportion of US Tax Dollars Pay for War?

June 18, 2012 from Al Jazeera English

US radio host Dennis Bernstein and investigative reporter Dave Lindorff illustrate just how much US tax money goes towards the country's war chest. "People have to realize that 53 cents of every dollar that they are paying into taxes is going to the military to an astonishing figure there is an enormous, enormous amount of money being blown on war an killing and destruction."

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Military budget of the United States

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Tax

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