Where Your Tax Dollars Go

Andrew Price
Former Web Editor, GOOD.is

April 15, 2009 • 2:34 pm PDT
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A tax day-themed video from the GOOD vault: "Missiles and Mortgages."

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Our static chart on the subject can be viewed here. And another chart with the same information, from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, is here.

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Tags: politics

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