43 Percent of Your Tax Dollars Pay for War
While...
1 percent goes to diplomacy and foreign aid
3 percent goes to education and jobs
3 percent goes to science, energy, and the environment, and
12 percent goes to responses to poverty.
Find out more about where your 2007 income tax dollars go with FCNL's tax day flyer (PDF).
President Bush's 2009 Budget Request
What We Like...
Diplomacy Funding: Budget requests money to hire 1,100 new diplomats.
Civilian Peacebuilders Funding: Budget requests $249 million to support civilian efforts to help stabilize and reconstruct countries emerging from war and conflict.
...and What We Don't
New Nuclear Weapons Funding: Budget requests funding for a new generation of nuclear weapons and a new nuclear bomb plant.
Military Aid. Budget would double funding for a military aid program that evades human rights restrictions.
More of what FCNL likes and doesn't like about the budget request.
Find Out More
How Does the President Propose Slicing the Budget Pie? 44 percent would go to the military.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
President's Budget Fiscal Year 2009: Impact on the States (National Priorities Project)
Key Resources on the Federal Budget
How does the government determine how it spends its money? Find out with FCNL's Playbill: The Federal Budget Process in Three Acts. Also available as a flyer ( PDF)
"Let's Not Talk About the Federal Budget" (PDF Washington Newsletter, March 2008)
Glossary of budget terms
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