Trade-Offs
Taxpayers in The United States will pay $10.1 billion for Iraq war spending for FY2012 Enacted. For the same amount of money, the following could be provided:
- 4.6 million Annual Energy Costs for a Household for One Year OR
- 5.2 million Children Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
- 148,386 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR
- 975,065 Fair Market Rent for One Bedroom Apartment for One Year OR
- 1.3 million Head Start Slots for Children for One Year OR
- 4.3 million Households Converted to All Solar Energy for One Year OR
- 9.1 million Households Converted to All Wind Energy for One Year OR
- 1.3 million Military Veterans Receiving VA Medical Care for One Year OR
- 4.8 million One Year Worth of Groceries for an Individual OR
- 2.1 million People Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
- 144,944 Police or Sheriff's Patrol Officers for One Year OR
- 1.3 million Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR
- 1.8 million Students receiving Pell Grants of $5550