Could your tax dollars be better spent?

From the National Priorities Project. You can go to the following site and find out the information for your location.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home

Taxpayers in Alaska will pay $143.3 million for additional proposed Iraq War spending FY 2008. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

20,146 People with Health Care OR
199,834 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
3,010 Public Safety Officers OR
2,302 Music and Arts Teachers OR
34,658 Scholarships for University Students OR
13 New Elementary Schools OR
908 Affordable Housing Units OR
27,445 Children with Health Care OR
18,359 Head Start Places for Children OR
2,018 Elementary School Teachers OR
1,638 Port Container Inspectors

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