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To: goldworldnet who wrote (728578)	3/1/2006 3:20:14 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 769670

42% of taxes goes to: Military spending is continuing to take a big bite out of our taxes. Overall military-related spending (for past and current wars and military activities) increased about 9.5 percent in FY05 over FY04, while total federal funds spending grew by about 9.0 percent. An estimated 42 percent of our federal income tax dollars was spent on past and present military activities. The percentage of federal funds spent on current and past military activities in FY05 is as follows: fcnl.org