The Altamont Enterprise
Maud Easter
04/23/2026
It’s particularly painful to pay taxes to this federal government this year. Your March editorial, “What Is Chaos and Whom Does It Serve?,” made wonderfully clear how the Trump administration’s use of our tax dollars is leading to terrible human costs in our local communities and in the Middle East as well. Our health care, housing, and education programs have all been so undermined by recent cuts in federal funds.
So where are our tax dollars going? According to an Institute for Policy Studies report, the average taxpayer last year paid $4,000 for weapons and war. And that was last year, before Trump launched the Iran war, which Americans for Tax Fairness estimates is costing us taxpayers $1 billion dollars a day.
