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Tax Day Receipt — Where Does Your Money Go?


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Lindsay Koshgarian, from the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, recently co-authored an updated “Tax Day Receipt” — a way of listing government expenditures as a grocery list. This year’s receipt includes the government program slashes by DOGE, and compares the repercussions with the cost of eggs; as an example, the cost of the USAID program which was eliminated and could potentially save six million lives in coming years would cost 6 dozen eggs per taxpayer. And the Homeless agency support program costs each taxpayer one cent…way less than a single egg.

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8 O'Clock BuzzBy Brian Standing, Haywood Simmons Michelle Naff, Jan Miyasaki, Tony Castaneda, Jonathan Zarov