Trade-Offs
Taxpayers in the city of New York City, New York will pay $3.7 billion for Afghanistan war spending for FY2012 Enacted. For the same amount of money, the following could be provided:
- 1.3 million Annual Energy Costs for a Household for One Year OR
- 1.5 million Children Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
- 43,553 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR
- 219,068 Fair Market Rent for One Bedroom Apartment for One Year OR
- 49,283 Firefighters for One Year OR
- 396,493 Head Start Slots for Children for One Year OR
- 2.5 million Households Converted to All Solar Energy for One Year OR
- 5.2 million Households Converted to All Wind Energy for One Year OR
- 377,570 Military Veterans Receiving VA Medical Care for One Year OR
- 1.8 million One Year Worth of Groceries for an Individual OR
- 440,746 People Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
- 49,095 Police or Sheriff's Patrol Officers for One Year OR
- 615,739 Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR
- 666,441 Students receiving Pell Grants of $5550