Taxman Cometh

Tax day is next week, so it's a good time to look at how our tax dollars are being spent. The National Priorities project has some interesting data, including the cost of war in Iraq to each state and select cities. Chicago's cost will be $775 million. (methodology)

Go do the trade-off computation. It's a real eye-opener. Also, the PDF files that look at military spending and its tradeoffs look to be a good read.