Tell Congress to Spend Your Taxes
the Way You Want
alerts@truemajority.org, April
9, 2003
By trimming the Pentagon budget
just 15%, we could fund all of the following human needs at no
additional taxpayer expense:
Provide basic health and food to the world's
poor:
$12 billion
Rebuild America's public schools over
10 years:
$12 billion
Reduce class size for grades 1-3 to 15
students per class:
$11 billion
Reduce debts of impoverished nations:
$10 billion
Provide health insurance to all uninsured
American kids:
$6 billion
Increase federal funding for clean energy
and energy efficiency:
$6 billion
Public financing of all federal elections:
$1 billion
Fully fund Head Start:
$2 billion
National Priorities Project - http://database.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoff
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