How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine

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  There's been a lot of disagreement in Congress and in the country about how the US has and whether the US should continue to financially support the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

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  And the objections to these two wars for people who have them are different for Ukraine.

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  Some taxpayers don't think the US should be giving any money to fight off Russia's invasion for Gaza.

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  Some taxpayers have concerns about how they might be funding weapons that have been used to kill civilians.

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  They're saying that more than 30,000 people have been killed, that hundreds of thousands are facing starvation, and they want to know how their tax dollars contribute to all of this.

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  And in general, they are questioning how the US spends taxpayer money on foreign military operations and war.

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  So that is what we're going to look at today.

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  Hello, and welcome to Planet money.

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  I'm Sarah Gonzalez.

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  And I'm Alexi Horowitz.

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  Ghazi.

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  Today on the show, we attempt to figure out the average us taxpayers role in funding these wars.

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  Now, obviously, these wars are about much, much more than the money that is going to them.

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  Yeah, these wars are much bigger than any accounting we could do.

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