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Your Tax Dollars at War:
More Than 53% of Your Tax Payment Goes to the Military

By Dave Lindorff'

The 2011 military budget, by the way, is the largest in history, not just in actual dollars, but in inflation-adjusted dollars, exceeding even the spending in World War II, when the nation was on an all-out war footing.
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