April 13, 2017

How was your tax dollar spent in 2017? Get the answers and then share them using our social media toolkit.

From general information to tax sppending on the Pentagon, immigration and incarceration, education, health care and the arts, here's our collection of Twitter-friendly graphics and sample tweets for Tax Day 2017. 

Tax Dollar 2017

Tax Dollar Tweets

We have the power to change how our tax dollars are spent. Get your full tax receipt here: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/taxday/average/2016/us/receipt/ 

How your tax dollar was spent in 2016: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/taxday/average/2016/us/receipt/ #TaxDay

Pentagon and War vs. Everything

Pentagon Tax Dollar Tweets

Out of every 8-hour workday, we spend almost 2 hours paying the Pentagon's way.

Pennies for the Pentagon Tweets

We have the power to change how our tax dollars are spent. Get your full tax receipt here: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/taxday/average/2016/us/receipt/ 

"They got money for wars but can't feed the poor." - Tupac 

Military Contractors Tweets

If you pay taxes then you pay for war. Get your full tax receipt here: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/taxday/average/2016/us/receipt/ 

Foreign Aid Tweets

Peace never had a chance. #MovetheMoney #TaxDay https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2017/tax-day-2017/

Still think we're the good guys? #MovetheMoney

Put people over profits. #MovetheMoney

Education Tweets

USA: Number one in military might.  Just so-so in education. Wonder why that is. 

NASA Tweets

"Think of all the blood spilled by all those generals so that...they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." -Carl Sagan

Nukes vs. Climate Tweets

It's never too late to invest in the future. #MoveTheMoney Get your full tax receipt here: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/taxday/average/2016/us/receipt/ 

End of the world or end fossil fuels? #TaxDay https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2017/tax-day-2017/

National Endowment for the Arts Tweets

When the arts go silent, what will we be fighting for? Get your full tax receipt at https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2017/tax-day-2017/

Planned Parenthood Tweets

Can you spare $2.50 for women's health? https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2017/tax-day-2017/

Immigration & Incarceration

Prison Tweets

Do we want our government to raise us up, or keep us down?  #MovetheMoney #TaxDay https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2017/tax-day-2017/

"They got money for wars but can't feed the poor." - Tupac 

" America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism." - MLK

Immigration Tweets

New priorities: more job training, fewer raids. #MovetheMoney #TaxDay

Budgets are moral documents. U.S.: your morals are showing. #MovetheMoney #TaxDay