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Redistributive Militarism: Escalating Military Spending as Disguised Income Redistribution from Bottom to Top

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[8] Scott Shane and Ron Nixon, “In Washington, Contractors Take On Biggest Role Ever,” The New York Times (4 February 2007), <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/washington/04contract.html>.

 

[9] Faiz Shakir et al., Center for American Progress Action Fund, “The Progress Report” (6 February 2007), <http://www.americanprogressaction.org/progressreport/2007/02/deep_hock.html>.

 

[10] Robert Greenstein, “DESPITE THE RHETORIC, BUDGET WOULD MAKE NATION’S FISCAL PROBLEMS WORSE AND FURTHER WIDEN INEQUALITY,” Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (6 February 2007), <http://www.cbpp.org/2-5-07bud.htm>.

 

[11] Ibid.

 

[12] Richard Du Boff, “What Military Spending Really Costs,” Challenge 32 (September/October 1989), pp. 4–10.

[13] Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer, No. 114 (31 December 2006), p. 4.

 

[14] Congressional Budget Office, Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates:  1979 to 2004, December 2006; as reported by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, <http://www.cbpp.org/1-23-07inc.htm>.

 

[15] See Tax Policy Center tables T06-0273 and T06-0279 at .

 

 

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Ismael Hossein-zadeh is a professor of economics at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. He is the author of the newly published book, The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism His Web page is http://www.cbpa.drake.edu/hossein-zadeh
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