As the U.S. funded a genocide in Gaza and military destabilization abroad last year, the average taxpayer paid over $5,000 in income taxes to fund militarism and its supporting projects, according to the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
"It's outrageous that the average taxpayer is giving the equivalent of a month's rent to Pentagon contractors," said National Priorities Project Program Director Lindsay Koshgarian. "Instead, ordinary people are subsidizing those corporations' profits and multi-million dollar CEO pay packages."
The report found that the average taxpayer paid more for militarism than Medicare, public education, food stamps, and renewable energy projects combined.
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