New Haven Independent

The National Priorities Project says that in Fiscal Year 2007, 40 percent of federal taxes went toward military spending, just 4 percent to education. Specifically, in 2007 New Haveners paid $67 million in federal taxes for the war in Iraq, which could have provided 22,122 people with health care or elementary school students with 924 teachers. The total cost of the Iraq war to New Haveners to date is $254.3 million, which could have provided 84,003 people with health care or built 1,218 units of affordable housing. Visit the website to learn about many other trade-offs to war spending.