Taking Your Money Out of the Military Budget

Just in time for tax season, Robert Gates has reminded us just how much money we spend of foreign wars. In less than a decade, according to our guests, the defense budget has nearly doubled from two to three hundred billion to close to 800. And what we’re actually spending may be much higher than that.

Tax resisters, however, say that you don’t have to fund the imperial budget. Andy Heaslet of the Peace Economy Project, Ed Hedemann author of War Tax Resistance: A Guide To Withholding Your Support From the Military, and Robert Weissman editor of the Multinational Monitor and Co-Director of Essential Action discuss what you can do with your money and why it doesn’t have to go to defense spending.