41% Percent of Your 2006 Taxes Go to War

Are you aware that 41% of your tax dollars go to pay for current and past military activities?

The following is from FCNL's calculations on your 2006 tax dollars.

>The dollar figure, expressed in millions of dollars, followed by the percentage of federal funds budget:

Current Military Spending -- 571,558 M -- 28%
Cost of Past Wars -----------263,542 M -- 13%
Total Percent ------------------------------ 41%

>And this is what the balance of your taxes buy:
Interest on Federal Debt ----211,462 M -- 10%
Health Research & Services -393,547 M -- 19%
Responses to Poverty -------241,012 M -- 12%
General Government --------84,609 M -- 4%
Economic Development -----112,125 M -- 5%
Social Programs --------------97,716 M -- 5%
Science, Energy, & Environment
---------------------------------50,815 M -- 2%
International Programs -------29,764 M -- 1%