Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/where-your-tax-dollar-was-spent-2018/
April 11, 2019 - ...federal government used every dollar you paid.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/seven-surprising-tax-facts-2019/
April 11, 2019 - Seven surprising facts about where our tax dollars go, and who pays what.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/border-shutdown-things-buy-instead-wall/
Jan. 23, 2019 - We're in the longest government shutdown in American history, all because of a political standoff over the border. What could we buy with $5 billion instead of a border wall?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/01/23/National-Emergency-Declaration-Power-Grab/
Jan. 23, 2019 - Lindsay Koshgarian argues that the government shutdown could very well lead to Trump calling a national emergency, which would be dangerous to freedom while also causing economic downturn.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/09/shutdown-day-19-and-real-crisis/
Jan. 9, 2019 - What would it look like if a president proposed spending just $5.7 billion out of the whole $1 trillion budget to solve a few real crises: health insurance, climate change, retirement savings, and stu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/01/09/Trump-Wall-is-a-Waste/
Jan. 9, 2019 - ...federal government shutdown has passed the two-week mark, with no end in sight. As federal workers and contractors face another week scraping by without pay, President Donald Trump on Tuesday night ad...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/12/21/Will-Government-Shut-Down-Over-Border-Wall/
Dec. 21, 2018 - ...federal government will shut down. At issue is $5 billion in funding for a border wall that President Trump demanded and Democrats insisted was not forthcoming. Recent reports indicate that the presid...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/12/10/Skewed-Government-Economic-Priorities/
Dec. 10, 2018 - Trump wants $5 billion for the wall. Some Democratic leaders, rather than outright reject that figure, have said that they will back $1.6 billion for the wall and/or immigration enforcement at the bor...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/09/24/Heres-What-We-Could-Have-If-We-Slashed-Military/
Sept. 24, 2018 - The US military budget sucks up an enormous amount of resources without making the world more peaceful or democratic. Here are a few ways we could better spend that $717 billion.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/06/14/Military-Industrial-Drain/
June 14, 2018 - As Trump stokes tensions around the world, he’s adding fuel to the fire by demanding even more Pentagon spending. It’s a dangerous military buildup intended to underwrite endless wars and ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/04/17/7-Surprising-Tax-Facts/
April 17, 2018 - Here’s where your tax dollars go (and who isn't paying taxes at all).
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/04/17/Tax-Day-2018-Bonanza-Corporations-and-Military/
April 17, 2018 - ...federal government as corporations do. It wasn't always this way. Corporations used to pay more income taxes than individuals did. In 1943, for example, corporations contributed 40 percent of federal...
Analysis - /analysis/2018/tax-day-2018/tax-day-2018-notes-and-sources/
March 22, 2018 - Tax Day shows how your individual income taxes were spent. Those are a portion of the taxes withheld from your paycheck, and due this year on April 18 (not April 15, as usual).
Analysis - /analysis/2018/tax-day-2018/seven-tax-facts-2018/
March 21, 2018 - Seven surprising facts about where our tax dollars go, and who pays what.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/02/12/Trump-Infrastructure-Scam/
Feb. 12, 2018 - It’s a shame that the president and Congress aren’t willing to make these simple choices to fund real infrastructure investments. It’s probably a fantasy that private investors will ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/01/17/Trump-Medicaid-Work-Requirements/
Jan. 17, 2018 - The work requirements fulfill a long-term Republican ideal of making poor Americans jump through many hoops, suffer undignified scrutiny, and be forced to work in a stagnant economy in order to be par...
Blog - /blog/2017/08/29/announcing-our-new-partnership-institute-policy-studies-letter-npp-supporters-executive-director-nora-ranney/
Aug. 29, 2017 - As of October 1, National Priorities Project (NPP) will join the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).
Blog - /blog/2017/04/18/tax-day-2017-taxes-and-all-feels/
April 18, 2017 - Taxes are like membership dues. We pay them to fund our priorities – the services and programs we care about – and they are also an investment in our country’s future.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/04/12/why-tax-resistance-under-trump-needs-antiwar-edge/
April 12, 2017 - Tax resistance, it seems, is having a moment.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/04/12/Building-new-militarism-movement/
April 12, 2017 - As Martin Luther King Jr. noted 50 years ago, you can’t fight militarism unless you also fight racism and materialism.
