{"id":43071,"date":"2012-01-02T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43071"},"modified":"2011-12-22T17:01:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:01:49","slug":"tax-dollars-and-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/01\/02\/tax-dollars-and-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Dollars and the War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Reports from the Economic Front<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is a short (less than 4 minute)\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0illustrates\u00a0the fact that 53% of\u00a0our tax dollars, conservatively estimated, go to finance our military.<\/p>\n

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And here is a\u00a0link<\/a>\u00a0to a recent study\u00a0by Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier on the employment effects of military spending versus alternative domestic spending priorities, in particular investments in clean energy, health care, and education.<\/p>\n

The authors first examine the employment effects of spending $1 billion on the military versus spending the same amount on\u00a0clean energy, health care, education or\u00a0tax cuts.\u00a0\u00a0The chart below shows their\u00a0results.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, even though jobs in the military provide the highest levels of compensation, the authors still find that \u201cinvestments in clean energy, health care and education create a much larger number of jobs across all pay ranges, including mid-range jobs (paying between $32,000 and $64,000) and high\u00a0paying jobs (paying over $64,000).\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see if these facts come up in the next Congressional budget debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Reports from the Economic Front. Here is a short (less than 4 minute)\u00a0video\u00a0that\u00a0illustrates\u00a0the fact that 53% of\u00a0our tax dollars, conservatively estimated, go to finance our military. And here is a\u00a0link\u00a0to a recent study\u00a0by Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier on the employment effects of military spending versus alternative domestic spending priorities, in particular investments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,34,702,252,304,309,76],"class_list":["post-43071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-education","tag-energy","tag-healthmedicine","tag-the-state","tag-warmilitary","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43080,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43071\/revisions\/43080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}