RedStateVT was channel-surfing last night and caught the end of a Bill Moyers PBS show. Moyers formerly held himself out as a journalist, before being revealed as a partisan left winger. This puts him in the same camp as MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, whose man-crush on Obama has now gotten creepy. Anyway, Moyers was talking about something called the National Priorities Project. RedStateVT checked it out and here’s how the NPP describes its mission:
National Priorities Project analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent. (National Priorities Project website)
Included on their website is a handy-dandy calculator that shows what your tax dollars could have gone to had they not been spent on - you pick it: total defense spending, spending in Afghanistan, spending in Iraq, spending in Afghanistan and Iraq, etc. By plugging in a few boxes, we learned, for example, that $287.7 million in taxes collected from Chittenden County for total fiscal year 2010 defense spending could have instead purchased 25,405 scholarships for one year for college students.
Well, that sure clarifies things for us!
RedStateVT has said it before, but let’s do it again:
The first priority of any country is national defense. If you can’t protect your borders from your enemies nothing else matters. We can quibble about the dollars, but when the bad guys fly planes into your buildings, try to blow up airplanes, open fire on American soldiers, or attack your embassies, we would rather err on the side of conservatism and spend more. As a result, some of our kids may end up having to work to put themselves through college, but you know what? That’s not such a bad thing either!
Included on their website is a handy-dandy calculator that shows what your tax dollars could have gone to had they not been spent on - you pick it: total defense spending, spending in Afghanistan, spending in Iraq, spending in Afghanistan and Iraq, etc. By plugging in a few boxes, we learned, for example, that $287.7 million in taxes collected from Chittenden County for total fiscal year 2010 defense spending could have instead purchased 25,405 scholarships for one year for college students.
Well, that sure clarifies things for us!
RedStateVT has said it before, but let’s do it again:
The first priority of any country is national defense. If you can’t protect your borders from your enemies nothing else matters. We can quibble about the dollars, but when the bad guys fly planes into your buildings, try to blow up airplanes, open fire on American soldiers, or attack your embassies, we would rather err on the side of conservatism and spend more. As a result, some of our kids may end up having to work to put themselves through college, but you know what? That’s not such a bad thing either!
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