National Priorities Project Bulletin In spite of claims that military spending creates jobs, much of the money spent on the military never makes it back to the States. NPP's findings, based on recently released federal spending data, show that 32 states pay more in taxes for the military than they receive back in military spending.  Click here to find out about your state. ( NC is # 32 .) NPP also offers state rankings and breakdowns that show what each state received to fund education, food and nutrition and the Environmental Protection Agency as compared to military spending, along with a breakdown of total expenditures by state compared to taxes paid.  Spending data at state and county levels for dozens of federal spending programs from 1983-2005 is also available at The NPP Database. On a separate note, we have updated our trade-offs-page to show what the proposed new war spending levels for Fiscal Year 2008 could buy your state or congressional district in a host of other local services such as health care for kids, affordable housing units or university scholarships. Finally, if you want to get the NPP Cost of War counter on your social networking profile (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), you can do it now by clicking http://nationalpriorities.org/cms/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8295&qid=26792. The Bush Administration presented a request yesterday for an additional $42.3 billion in war-related spending, which would bring the total cost of the Iraq War to $611 billion. With this upcoming request, the war spending proposal for fiscal year 2008 totals $193 billion.   Of the total amount requested, $154.7 billion would be allocated to the Iraq War, the most expensive year to date.  Click here for a chart detailing the fiscal year 2008 request.   In addition to this national analysis, NPP offers state breakdowns of the cost of the Iraq War thus far, the cost to each state's taxpayers of the new funding request and the total cost of the war if Congress approves the request. At the same time, the Department of Defense budget for fiscal year 2008, which does NOT include war spending, is up to $460 billion.  The House passed this budget; the Senate's version is in Committee. Take your state cost of war number, get related trade-off info on what the money spent thus far could buy your state in local services instead, and use it all to get your message out.