Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons - Institute for Policy Studies Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons

Did you pay your taxes? Then you gave $4,049 to war and weapons.

According to the Institute for Policy Studies, taxpayers contributed more to Pentagon contractors ($1,870) than to troops' pay ($770), and more to militarism than programs like school lunches ($124) or the Postal Service ($19).

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

A government of losers headed by the top loser.

What do these companies have in common?

-Block
-Citigroup
-Coinbase
-CVS
-Dominion Energy
-Disney
-Halliburton
-Hasbro
-HP
-Kohl's
-Live Nation
-Palantir
-Paypal
-PG&E
-Southwest Airlines
-Tesla
-United Airlines

They all paid a lower effective income tax rate than you: zero.

Can't stop thinking about Disney receiving a $1.428 billion tax refund while making $12 billion in profits, cutting 1,000 jobs, spending $7 billion on stock buybacks & paying its CEO $45.8 million.

Here's the receipt. See Page 34 & 98 of Disney's 10-K: www.sec.gov/ixviewer-plu...

Charlotte Clymer: In the past week, Donald Trump has threatened nuclear war against Iran, called for the genocide of 93 million Iranians, publicly attacked the Pope, and compared himself to Jesus Christ. Recall July of 2024 when every pundit and reporter in American media were urging President Biden to step down due to concerns over his cognitive health. Where are those voices now? Where are the demands for Trump to be removed? Where is the flood of op-eds and cable news panels and social media posts calling for the 25th Amendment to be triggered? Why are you all so silent on this?

When your distractions to distract from your last distractions fail to distract, you do this because at the end of the day you're still a man who raped children.

Another dictator downed.

Critics dumbfounded as Trump suffers 'complete collapse' among his strongest voter group A new CBS News poll published Sunday found that Trump has suffered an unprecedented collapse in support among what has historically been his single-strongest voter base, leaving critics stunned.Conduc...

Ruh roh:

Critics dumbfounded as Trump suffers 'complete collapse' among his strongest voter group

www.rawstory.com/trump-267670...

"Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, who died #OTD 2007

That's your job, deadbeat. If you're not going to do the job you're getting paid for, then why are we still paying you?

The Pogues - 05 - Thousands are Sailing (Live @ T&C '88) YouTube video by ShastaOrange

Where e'er we go, we celebrate
The land that makes us refugees

For Trump, the Russian asset, it’s Make Russia Great Again (MRGA). Time to get your red pedo hats updated, MAGA. I mean, MRGA.

Reagan’s OMB Director:

Trump will ultimately be remembered as the loser that he's always been.

This report is well done. It has detail and they appear to have done their due diligence.

I feel terrible for the woman who experienced this and carried it for years.

These are serious allegations. They deserve to be taken seriously, examined, and handled with care for everyone involved.

This is the reason why the real systematic change is impossible in USA.

Two party system, in the end, is just one party politics.

#HouseDemocrats

When fascist governments fascist.

Pete Hegseth is a disaster of a defense secretary. It’s no surprise | Margaret Sullivan The former Fox host has misled the public, prayed for violence and clashed with the press. This is not a serious military leader

"With his bloodthirsty utterances, his fierce loyalty to Trump and his appalling inability to manage this huge moment in world history, Hegseth is every bit the disaster that anybody sensible could have seen coming," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.

"A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial, that is, when its ruling class has lost its function, but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud...."
--George Orwell, The Prevention of Literature