New York should realign taxes
with priorities
by placing human needs
over wasteful nuclear spending(1)
NEW YORK’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE NUCLEAR BUDGET
- The US total individual income tax is $2,462,201,645,000. (2)
- NY total individual income tax is $201,727,763,000. (3)
- 8.2% of the nation's collected income tax comes from NY.
- The US is set to spend $355,000,000,000 on nuclear weapons between 2014 to 2023. (4)
- 8.2% of $355 billion is $29,110,000,000 of this ten year budget will come from NY.
- NY will pay $2,911,000,000 annually towards nuclear weapons for the ten years.
- The population in NY in 2012 was 19,576,125. (5)
- Each year over the next ten years, NY tax payers contribute $149 to the nuclear weapons budget.
NEW YORK’S HUMAN NEEDS
- NY school districts require an additional $3.5 billion to meet adequacy goals. (6) *
- NY needs an additional $1.4 billion to meet food needs. (7) *
- NY faces a required investment of $27 billion over the next 20 years to replace aging facilities and comply with safe drinking water regulations (8) *
Download the NY Nuclear Budget Infographic here...
| pna-ny.pdf |
1 All figures in the document are approximate.
2 http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Gross-Collections,-by-Type-of-Tax-and-State,-Fiscal-Year-IRS-Data-Book-Table-5
3 http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Gross-Collections,-by-Type-of-Tax-and-State,-Fiscal-Year-IRS-Data-Book-Table-5
4 http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/12-19-2013-NuclearForces.pdf 5 http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/42000.html
6 https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/uploadedFiles/cpr/people/faculty/duncombe/executive%20summary.pdf
7 http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-studies/map-the-meal-gap.aspx
8 http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/home
2 http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Gross-Collections,-by-Type-of-Tax-and-State,-Fiscal-Year-IRS-Data-Book-Table-5
3 http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Gross-Collections,-by-Type-of-Tax-and-State,-Fiscal-Year-IRS-Data-Book-Table-5
4 http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/12-19-2013-NuclearForces.pdf 5 http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/42000.html
6 https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/uploadedFiles/cpr/people/faculty/duncombe/executive%20summary.pdf
7 http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-studies/map-the-meal-gap.aspx
8 http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/home
