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Originally Posted by The Cleaner
Size is not the only measure of ones Military might. I do however agree with you for the first time. Getting what we pay for is what we need more of.
When you are looking to point fingers at what cost us the most and we get the least check public school before the Military, last I checked 50% of my taxes are paying for that and it's as broken as anything I can think of.
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50%??
I'm not sure what your local and state taxes are, because that varies by state and City.
But with regard to any Federal Taxes you pay, including Federal Income Tax:
Last year, the Federal Budget was $2.77 trillion, of which $56 billion was for the Dept. of Education, making a wopping 2.02%.
And this year, Bush's budget is being raised to $2.9 trillion, but he has proposed the same $56 billion for the Dept. of Education, or 1.93% of the Federal Budget.