Endless War and Empire: Your Tax Dollars at Work

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Endless-War-and-Empire-Yo-by-Medea-Benjamin-110413-245.html

Death and taxes are the only certainties in life. And these days, they go hand in hand.

While our fiscal woes have led Congress to slash food aid this year to the world's poor -- rest assured, fellow Americans -- the U.S. government will keep using your tax dollars to kill them. For while John Boehner and Barack Obama might disagree on some things, there's one area they can agree on: War. And the need for more of it.

"Money for bombs, not bread," might be a good bipartisan slogan.

And when it comes to dropping its citizens' tax dollars on flying killer robots and foreign military occupations, no country comes close to the United States. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- more than $150 billion in direct spending this year alone -- exceeds what China, the U.S.'s closest military rival, spends altogether on its armed forces. Overall, the Obama administration will spend more than $700 billion next year on the military.

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