Dear Friend, If the USA had a genuine “defense” budget, it would be a small fraction of the $1.01 trillion that President Trump is determined to push through Congress for the next fiscal year. If you’re paying taxes, you’re helping to fund the ever-increasing military budget – what Martin Luther King Jr. aptly described as “some demonic, destructive suction tube.” The RootsAction Education Fund works to expose that spending for what it actually is – a military boondoggle and gigantic rip-off of taxpayers, with great financial results for corporate war contractors and horrific results for people. Please consider reducing your involuntary contribution to the “demonic, destructive” process by making a tax-deductible contribution to the RootsAction Education Fund. Here are two ways you could divert money from the so-called Defense Department while helping to educate and agitate for an end to what Dr. King called “the madness of militarism.” Either way, the U.S. government – which spends well over half of its discretionary budget on the military – would lose out, while you’d be strengthening the ongoing work of the RootsAction Education Fund If you own stock you’d like to unload in a way that would likely reduce your tax burden and definitely benefit our efforts for peace and justice, click here to fill out a 30-second form and I’ll get back to you. Thank you for considering! With best wishes,
Norman
for the RootsAction Education Fund team | 
