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1 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 www.nationalpriorites.org

2 National Priorities Project  Non-profit, non-partisan federal budget research org  People’s Guide to the Federal Budget  Federal Budget 101 & Local Data  http://nationalpriorities.org http://nationalpriorities.org www.nationalpriorites.org

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5 Where did your 2013 federal income tax dollars go?

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7 $1.75 trillion since 2001

8 www.nationalpriorites.org

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11 Connecting the dots… www.nationalpriorites.org

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14 The Meter is Running www.nationalpriorites.org As of October 7, 2014

15 …And Running… www.nationalpriorites.org

16 Cost of [REAL] National Security www.nationalpriorites.org

17 “Mission Creep” => “Budget Creep” www.nationalpriorites.org

18 Data & Tools www.nationalpriorites.org

19 Trade-Offs www.nationalpriorites.org 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

20 THANK-YOU! dhall@nationalpriorities.org On Twitter: @halldjh www.nationalpriorites.org


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