How Much Did YOU Work Last Year To Fund Trump's War Machine? Here's The Receipts

Happy Tax Day.

While you were finishing your return and wondering where do your tax dollars go, the actual numbers for 2025 were released. And they aren’t a matter of opinion—they’re an accounting.

According to the 2025 Taxpayer Receipt from the Institute for Policy Studies, the average American taxpayer paid $4,049 for weapons and war. By contrast, that same taxpayer paid just $124 for school lunches.

This isn’t about a "spiritual battle" or "national security." This is a lack of empathy masquerading as fiscal responsibility. When you work 50 days a year just to fund a war machine—including $1,870 that goes directly to private Pentagon contractor CEOs—while the administration slashes home heating assistance and Medicaid, the message is clear: Your labor is a resource for extraction, not a priority for investment.

Today, we look past the "America First" rhetoric to the logical materialist reality of tax day 2026 . If you want to know why your pocketbook feels empty while the Pentagon’s is overflowing, you need to see the receipt.

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