No one likes tax day. The paperwork. The anticipation of a return. The shock of owing more. None of it is fun. Least of all paying for wasteful programs that do little to nothing to keep the American people safe. Like upgrading bombs that cost more than their weight in gold [2]. Or building new nuclear weapons [3] that will never be used. It turns out, on average, each of us paid about $81.50 in nuclear weapons taxes in 2013 [4].
That’s a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Links
[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/3137
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/blog/budget-busting-b61
[3] http://www.ploughshares.org/blog/2014-04-07/dirty-budgets-threaten-obamas
[4] http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/politics/140411/6-surprising-ways-washington-spends-your-taxes
[5] http://www.ploughshares.org/who-we-are/staff/amanda-waldron