Where do our tax dollars go?

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In 2025 alone, the U.S. government sent Israel about $12 billion in military funding to mass murder the Palestinian people.

We’re all paying the price of this genocide—with our federal tax dollars. The Israeli military has dropped the equivalent of 13 Hiroshima atomic bombs on Gaza. Destruction on this scale impacts all of life on Earth, accelerating climate collapse.

Find out how much money people in your city are forced to pay through your federal tax dollars, 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 60% 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 77+ 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 U.S. funding has directly paid for Israeli healthcare.

    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 $12 billion the U.S. sent Israel in military funding in 2025 to murder Palestinian children could have instead paid for free or low-cost healthcare for 3.5 million 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.