Where do our tax dollars go?

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In 2024 alone, the U.S. government sent Israel at least $17.9 billion in military funding to mass murder the Palestinian people. Israel used our tax dollars to kill an estimated hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people in Gaza.

We’re all paying the price of this genocide—with our tax dollars. The U.S.-funded Israeli military has dropped the equivalent of over five Hiroshima nuclear bombs on Gaza, accelerating climate collapse for the whole world.

Find out how much money people in your city are forced to pay, and what could be funded instead.

FAQs About Where Our Taxes Go 

  • We’ve never been closer to ending U.S. funding to Israel. A strong 61% majority of Americans want an arms embargo. For the first time ever, Americans are polling in sympathy with Palestine over Israel. The people’s demands are clear. 

    Keep talking about Palestine. Our movement doesn’t have a $150 million check to promote propaganda, like Israel. It has each of us advocating for Palestinian liberation in the wake of 76+ years of ongoing struggle.

  • Israeli settlers on native Palestinian land enjoy free universal healthcare, paid for by the state’s payroll taxes and “general tax revenue.” We can’t know for certain whether the U.S. is directly paying for Israeli healthcare. That’s because a portion of the $3.8 billion minimum that the U.S. sends to Israel every year goes into an account controlled by Israel. After that, we don’t know what happens to it, though legally, we should.

    The Leahy law bans U.S. military funding to foreign units that have committed gross violations of human rights. Five Palestinians are suing the U.S. government for breaking the Leahy law, which would require transparency on where our tax dollars are going, unit by unit.

    Regardless, the $17.9 billion we sent Israel in 2024 to murder children could have instead paid for free or low-cost healthcare for one year to 6,228,253 children in the U.S.

  • While Israeli citizens have to pay taxes, they don’t carry the same tax burden as American taxpayers.

    According to the Tax Foundation’s 2024 International Tax Competitiveness Index, Israel is ranked 10th and the United States is ranked 18th overall. The tax burden gap is even wider for property taxes—Israel is ranked 10th and the U.S. is ranked 28th. 

  • The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has given $2.1 billion in humanitarian aid to Palestine since October 7, 2023.2 Within the same time period, the U.S. gave $17.9 billion to Israel to destroy Gaza, mass murder Palestinians, and create the very humanitarian crisis the U.S. purports to care about.