Every 5 Seconds the Feds Spend $1M; Where Does It All Go?
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Every five seconds that the Federal bureaucracy is open, the government spends $1 million.
That’s $12 million every minute, almost $1.8 trillion every year.
It’s still unclear to me from reading Wright’s article what the actual legal status of war tax resistance via redirection is in Italy, but it does give some new information.
In part, what seems to be going on is that Italy has adopted an unarmed citizen defense scheme in parallel to its more traditional military defense, and conscientious objectors to military taxation are trying to use this as leverage for some sort of option that would allow them to pay the defense portion of their tax bill directly to this citizen defense program rather than to the government which would apportion the money to that program and to the military.