Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/24/nevada-county-group-urges-peace-through-budgets/
Feb. 24, 2020 - While some opponents may naturally say the money is needed to make sure the military is properly funded, the majority of military spending does not go toward U.S. military personnel.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/president-trumps-2021-budget-prioritizes-pentagon/
Feb. 10, 2020 - ...federal agency would face cuts under the president’s proposal. Across the board, the Trump budget prioritizes brute force and military solutions over humanitarian and diplomatic ones.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/10/24/warren-tough-choices-funding-medicare-for-all/
Oct. 24, 2019 - ...federal budget, like the Pentagon.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/08/09/deficit-hawks-enabling-next-us-war/
Aug. 9, 2019 - The U.S. budget is rigged to hold essential domestic programs hostage to the Pentagon's war chest.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/poor-peoples-moral-budget/poor-peoples-moral-budget-key-findings/
June 17, 2019 - Key findings from the Poor People's Moral Budget report.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/tax-day-2019-notes-and-sources/
April 11, 2019 - 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 15.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/tax-day-2019-social-media-toolkit/
April 11, 2019 - Tax Day 2019 graphics for social media.
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).
