Budget, Values, and Militarism: Aligning our Budgets with our Priorities Mass Peace Action MIT, Cambridge, MA November 8, 2014 Douglas Hall, Ph.D. Executive Director, National Priorities Project
National Priorities Project Non-profit, non-partisan federal budget research org People’s Guide to the Federal Budget Federal Budget 101 & Local Data
Where did your 2013 federal income tax dollars go?
$1.75 trillion since 2001
Connecting the dots…
The Meter is Running As of October 7, 2014
…And Running…
Cost of [REAL] National Security
“Mission Creep” => “Budget Creep”
Data & Tools
Trade-Offs Kansas City: $88 million for Homeland Security in FY 2014 That’s 10 years of VA care for 500 vets and 500 Head Start slots for 10 years
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