SOLIDARITY IS THE NEW EVANGELIZATION

Poster representing boycott of grapes at Safeway stores, in support of farmworkers in the fields

 

Solidarity forever!  Soledaridad pa’ siempre!  These were the songs and chants I remember from early 1960’s organizing efforts to support the California farmworkers and Cesar Chavez in forming their union.  The white middle class church I was growing up in, from Msgr. George Higgins on the national level to many priests in the Detroit area, was in solidarity with the rights of the poor to make a better life for themselves, thereby making us all a more Christ-like community.  I was given the opportunity to live, and work in the fields, with Mexican-American migrants in Michigan.  It changed my life, and still strengthens my faith.

 

Since that time, unions have fallen from grace in our nation’s estimation, side-lined by our society’s constant striving for financial profits for corporations, and then corporations leaving unions in the lurch with ever more lucrative deals in cheaper offshore labor markets.   Some of this was certain of the unions’ own fault, in their mimicking the worst corporate behaviors.  But our whole country has forgotten the concept of solidarity, that gave the labor movement its life breath.  The unions were built by different immigrant worker groups passing on part of the small gains they’d made, to the next group in need.  Individuality is now thought the key to success.  Every man and woman for themself.

 

This is why we should all be so heartened by the renewal of solidarity called for by Pope Francis in his World Youth Day visits to the poor of Brazil’s favelas this summer. “ And the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced, because it is uncomfortable. I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!”  The text of the full speech is available from Vatican Radio and well worth reading.  The pope continues, “Let us always remember this: only when we are able to share do we become truly rich; everything that is shared is multiplied!”

Pope Francis with the indigenous in Brazil

This offers great hope for the “New Evangelization” that is being initiated in the U.S. Catholic Church.  We can’t stay within the bounds of the dominant established culture, though we have much to do there.   We must reach out to all groups and sectors with the Gospel, and share to meet the common needs—a multiplication of loaves and fishes to match the evangelical message, the words of scripture.  Our Liturgy of the Word finds its solidarity, its best lived expression, in our Liturgy of the Eucharist, and our coming together more and more often with those we thought were not part of us.   It’s a good time to learn Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic …

This goes much deeper than social welfare programs, even deeper than the social justice measures that will result, to that real transformation that comes with crossing boundaries, while respecting each other as equals—rich/poor, complacent/evangelical, illiterate/educated, atheist/believer.  All with our eyes of faith, are children of God, members of our ever growing family.

 

We will evangelize others if we are building trust and common cause with them even when they’re not of the same faith as ours, or of any faith.  The Gospel must be both preached, and lived out.   Joining unions, is one way to do so, though limited now by the scarcity of union jobs.  The inspired risk is to find good ways to throw in your lot with others, even when it’s unpopular to do so [for unions it also costs you some $50/month dues you could avoid, in the growing number of “right to work” states].  Going to church, faces similar negatives in our why-bother-I’ve-got-mine culture.

Jesus was found among tax collectors, fisherman, the sick and the sinful.  He was in solidarity both with outcasts, and anyone who would hear his word, and act on it.   His way of solidarity, not always easy— but a happiness that lasts forever.

Robert Kennedy sharing communion with Cesar Chavez at end of one of Chavez' 40 day fasts for farmworker justice

 

 

YOUNG BLACK WOMAN DISARMS WHITE SCHOOL SHOOTER, BY HER COURAGE AND PRAYER

Antoinette Tuff-- interview on 8-20-13 Atlanta's Channel 2 Action News

 

A remarkable news story went largely unnoticed last week.  In Decatur, GA, on August 20^th, a young man barged into an elementary school armed with an AK 47 and 500 rounds of ammunition.   He, as all the school shooters before him, were not hardened trained killers, had never killed anyone, but on that day he fully intended to take as many with him as he could, all killed in a hail of bullets.  He said he’d nothing to live for.  A few articles told of the courage, and perhaps good luck they’d say, of the young black woman, Antoinette Tuff, who stopped him armed with faith and compassion alone.  Many in the national media, including the Gannett feature in our local Times Herald four days after the event { enigmatically titled “School shooter changed as teen: brother”}, carried his picture, not hers. 

oming just before the 50^th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech and March on Washington, her valor should have been news headlines trumpeted far and wide.  She had lived MLK’s principle, “nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people,” prevented the disaster by believing only God’s goodness can triumph over this evil.  Please read more of this story and hear her words at Slate magazine and NPR.
 

For the first time in any of these tragic events, the shooter shot no one, nor did he himself die.  The African American woman who first confronted him was unarmed, a bookkeeper-receptionist, who instead of running when he told her to, stood her ground, told him he didn’t want to do this, and kept at it with him, listening and talking and praying for the words to say, for one hour—until he put down his weapons and surrendered to the police.  He’d fired his gun numerous times, but no one died.  She placed herself at risk between him and 870 children because she believed she had to, and that the shooter’s life was worth saving too. 

 

Her courage came from being “anchored in the Lord” something her Christian pastor had taught his congregation, about bringing Jesus with you moment to moment in times of trial.  Her courage came from faith more powerful than a gun, and when it was over, the good outcome was not hers, she said, but she “gave it all to the Lord.” 

 

 

efore we arm all administrators and teachers, as some have suggested {and laws in three states now allow} let’s recognize that a gun has never stopped a school shooter, but this woman did, by prayer and compassion.  Passing out more guns in schools just compounds the dominant teaching in our society, that the power to kill is a necessary tool that should be used responsibly, widely distributed.

Antoinette Tuff has been called lucky by some, but those are the pundits who think that prayer is only a sideline, not to be relied on to move mountains, or confront enemies.  You might praise the Lord, they’d say, but pass the ammunition.

Gospel truth confounds this worldly wisdom.  The result of faith-filled prayer is not luck.  It is the only effective weapon against evil—that stops, instead of perpetuates, the cycle of violence.

 

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/08/21/antoinette_tuff_michael_brandon_hill_atlanta_school_clerk_says_she_talked.html
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/22/214576953/911-call-captures-school-employee-talking-down-gunman

 



Michael Brandon Hill--shooter interrupted by grace

 

 

 

Illuminations by Kathy Brahney, may be enlarged in much more beautiful detail, by clicking on

 

 

 

 

 



CONSTANTINE—SAINT OF THE STATE, CLEVER PRETENDER TO GOD’S THRONE

 

Christians started to violently defend themselves 1700 years ago, when Constantine gave pagan temples to be church property, and then told us we had to defend person and property by force of arms.  This after 300 years of Christians suffering at the hands of the Roman state that regarded us as disloyal, because we would follow only the nonviolent merciful Jesus. We were given freedom of religion in Constantine’s empire, but it was stipulated that our religion would, from then on, become part of his army’s weaponry.   Three hundred years of catacomb Christianity rolled over in its grave.  We became reputable, property insured, and capable of organized violence all in the same time frame.  The Edict of Milan in 313 A.D. legalized being Christian—a freedom fundamentally compromised by enslavement to Caesar’s wars.
 

Constantine and the Battle of Milvian Bridge--in which he attributed victory to his conditional embrace of the cross.

Most Christians know very little of this history of Constantine {he is honored as a saint in some Eastern Orthodox churches, yet not by Roman Catholics}.  But with the brutality of Twentieth Century wars, and now a never-ending War against Terrorism, many are beginning to examine consciences on our relationship with the state--all this fighting for survival of worldly kingdoms.  Interestingly, there is at this juncture a full length feature film in production on Constantine and the Council of Nicaea. Perhaps it will shed light on the critical turn of the Church towards organized violence, perhaps it will be clever promotion for more of the same.   For pro and con on the history Constantine, there are some good resources below.

The most powerful weapon we are given in the Gospels is God’s loving forgiveness, which is in reality His loving saving Son—and it’s the forgiveness He teaches and lives with us to this very day.  Forgiveness seven times seventy.  Father forgive them they know not what they do [with their choice of weaponized violence].  Those who would save their lives will lose them.  These are hard sayings for God’s people so inclined to live for the worldly kingdom—but they are crucial Good News coming from the mouth and heart of Jesus, lived by Him, hands to feet head to toe, from cross to Resurrection.

 

“So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of my mouth.”  Rev. 3:16

“Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.”  MLK

“Put away the sword.”  Mt 26:52

 

References

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/constantinian-christianity-cms-12212

http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/eccles/constantine.html
http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2011-09/constantinianism-all-bad
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0182.htm - George Weigel's recent comments.
A good review of this issue, placing the church history in the context of the Spirituality of Nonviolence, can be found in the first segment of Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy’s series, Behold the Lamb, available at http://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org/audio-files/

And Fr. E.C. McCarthy highly recommends an important authoritative book on the subject, Constantine and the Bishops {2000}, available at Amazon and libraries.

 

ON THE ZIMMERMAN TRIAL—NOT KNOWING HIS MIND, WHAT ABOUT OURS?

 

Does Jesus say it is our duty to use a gun, or any weapon, to defend ourselves and others?  That is a fundamental question for Christians in considering this year's controversial not-guilty verdict of George Zimmerman in his trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin.  It was ruled self-defense, stand your ground.  But does the church’s traditional position of justified lethal self defense, as stated by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, more than 1000 years after the Incarnation, stand true to our times.  More important, how does it stand up to the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

These are the words of Thomas Aquinas used in the Catholic Catechism [CCC # 2264] to support killing in self defense, “Nor is it necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense to avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one's own life than of another's.^” This is certainly reasonable, but seems more derived from natural law than the life and teachings of Jesus.  Is preservation of life, by killing, what He came to reveal to us?

In a Sunday Gospel of this past July, Jesus tells us our care and compassion is to extend beyond our definitions of neighbor, even to the worst enemy [good] Samaritan, who in turn cared for one whom, by all rights, he shouldn't have.  This explanation of “neighbor” is in His admonition to the lawyer on the breadth of the Two Great Commandments: Love God, and love your neighbor as yourself.  As to His own person, Jesus chooses not to defend Himself, and dies on the cross, forgiving His enemies.

he whole section of our Catholic Catechism on the Fifth Commandment, which ranges from self defense to war, is worth reading carefully and praying about, at this juncture in our life as a country.  Its preamble, “Thou shalt not kill,” is deepened then, by including Jesus’ words in Mt 5:21-22, “You have heard that it was said to the men of old, "You shall not kill: and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment." But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment.”

 

To not kill, something is required.  The preparations Jesus suggests, time and again, are forgiveness and reconciliation, not time spent in consideration of how big the caliber of the gun needed, or strategies for its use.  The anger and fear that leads to killing is to be cleansed by reliance on Jesus’ merciful saving love, of which we are all desperately in need.

Crucifixion by Salvador Dali

Conflict is resolved, and evil conquered, by not taking up the violent means of the Evil One, but by perfecting the healing skills and inspired grace given by our faith in God the all-powerful.  This takes learning and dedication to a new Christ-centered way of living.  Wise as serpents gentle as doves, with all venomous snake bite removed.

There are many practical ways to defuse violence, anger, and fear.  When the haves meet the have-nots as moral equals, this begins to happen.  As Pope Paul VI said, “If you want peace, work for justice.”  This is happening—from the charitable works of the Knights of Columbus and St. Vincent De Paul societies, to the efforts of Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Catholic Volunteer Network, people meeting each other, who are bound to have differences, can start to overcome them. Now our Pope Francis is leading us into the favelas, where we meet our larger family of brothers and sisters, and banish the fear of them.

  Celebration at Pope Francis' visit to favela--erika garcia of foxnewslatino--July 25, 2013

It was reported in the New York Times that George Zimmerman, on the night of his killing Trayvon Martin, was concerned because he was Catholic and said, “In the Catholic religion it’s always wrong to kill somebody.” He was corrected by a woman wearing a cross, “…that’s not what God meant.”  She assured him, you can kill another to save your own life.

 

I believe Mr. Zimmerman, paradoxically, had it right--it's always wrong to kill.  Our catechism at this point in salvation history does make provision for lethal self defense.  But what would Jesus do, and what should we truly be doing now and in days ahead, to safeguard our lives and the lives of others, our whole communities black and white, to secure justice and charity for all?
 

 

Photo from Birmingham, Alabama civil rights movement

Selma, Alabama civil rights march

References

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a5.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/jurors-hear-zimmermans-taped-police-interview.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1&Excerpt--

Earlier on Monday, jurors got another glimpse into Mr. Zimmerman’s comportment the night of the killing. Officer Singleton testified that Mr. Zimmerman had expressed dismay after first learning that Mr. Martin had died. “In the Catholic religion, it’s always wrong to kill somebody,” he told her, after noticing Officer Singleton was wearing a cross around her neck. She recalled replying: “If what you’re telling me is true, that’s not what God meant. It doesn’t mean you can’t save your own life.”


Illumination by Kathy Brahney

FOR THE USA—THE BAGHDAD OF DREAMS, IS THE REALITY OF HADITHA

A plan by US military planners for the "Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club" in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. Photograph: US Army/AP -- the story of our persistent dreams in 2008

 

In the summer of 2003, when President Bush mounted an aircraft carrier to declare “mission accomplished” in Iraq, my sister-in-law had begun to peruse travel brochures offering scenic tours of the new Iraq.  "See their special brand of pyramid, in the ancient Fertile Crescent, with all modern amenities."   She is an excellent horsewoman, cares well for husband, kids and grandkids, but certainly not a student of recent history. 

Ten years later there are more daily bombs than destination boutiques in Baghdad—only half the city it used to be.   Our troops have cleared out with some of their weapons, having mothballed many of our military bases; yet so much violent baggage left behind, and carried back home.  The only tours, were our soldiers revolving “stop loss” tours of duty.   The advertised super-modern golf-hotel complex was never built.  The most giant fortified embassy in the world is now our monument in Baghdad.  Will any U.S. citizens ever routinely visit there again, outside its walls, in our lifetime?  

Soldiers were deployed throughout Iraq, in untenable occupations, unwelcome, trying to bargain between Sunni and Shiite factions, to gain some foothold by favors and firepower, never knowing who was real friend or enemy.  Fleeting allegiances only guaranteed to end in further bloodshed.  It drove the people crazy.  It drove our troops crazy.  The sad story of Haditha is one among too many.

his is from a “CBS 60 Minutes” 3-18-07 interview of Sgt. Frank Wuterich.
Haditha is a town of 70,000, in Anbar province, the heart of the Sunni resistance, where, among the residents, anti-American passions run high. In the months before Wuterich's unit arrived, other Marines there were suffering some of the heaviest causalities in all of Iraq, including the bombing of an armored vehicle that killed 14 Marines. Days before that, six Marines in Haditha were ambushed, tortured and killed. The enemy put it on the Internet where Wuterich and his men saw the bodies and the dog tags of their dead comrades.
 

The incident of 11-19-05 was first reported by Marine press release, in this way, “Bomb kills 15 Civilians and a Marine in Restive Province.”  Six months after the event the story began to change.

Sgt. Wuterich, who’d yet to have combat experience, was in command that day when an IED exploded one of the vehicles in his convoy, killing one of his men, seriously injuring 3 others.  A white taxi with 5 Iraqi youth inside was nearby.  Then, according to conflicting accounts, those 5 were shot either running away or standing in surrender posture hands behind heads; his men thought they were under threat, or just charged into surrounding houses, killing 19 Iraqi civilians, including 10 women and children, a man with a cane, and one in a wheelchair.  “The death certificates Colonel Watt [an investigator] examined were chillingly succinct: well-aimed shots to the head and chest.” Multiple Marine cover-ups and trial delays for the 8 Marines eventually charged, ensued.

 

Scene of  Haditha 11-19-05, apparently taken by soldier cell phone, shows white taxi and several dead Iraq civilians--Wikipedia photo

CBS continues--

 Wuterich finished his Iraq tour and, before he was charged, he was promoted by the Marine Corps. He's back home on a base in the U.S., and when 60 Minutes visited, he and his wife Marisol were planning a birthday party for one of their two daughters. Not long after, Marisol gave birth to a third little girl. Wuterich's enlistment is up, but he's being kept in the military, at a desk job, until his court martial.

"What I did that day, the decisions that I made, I would make those decisions today," he says.
"What I'm talking about is the tactical decisions. It doesn't sit well with me that women and children died that day," Wuterich says.
"There is nothing that I can possibly say to make up or make well the deaths of those women and children and I am absolutely sorry that that happened that day."

What was Wuterich thinking when he went to bed that night?
"That I'm not sure I want to go to sleep tonight, because I don't know what I'm going to dream."

Wuterich walks now a free man [as do the other Marines involved], not serving any time for his conviction, divorced by his wife by the time CBS updated this report on 8-17-07.  It’s probable that the conflict of that day in Haditha lives on within him.  For the families of those 24 Iraqi civilians of Haditha killed, the same is true.

Survivors of the Marine attack on the village of Haditha, Iraq---photo by Andrea Bruce for The New York Times

For a good summation of this tragedy of occupation violence, see this surprising article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/middleeast/united-states-marines-haditha-interviews-found-in-iraq-junkyard.html?pagewanted=all

Added update 7-31-13, as can be added almost every single day.
Wave of Car Bombs Kills Dozens in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/middleeast/iraq.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld   Excerpt---
"Militants among the minority Sunnis have been emboldened by the civil war in neighboring Syria, where the Sunni majority has been trying to overthrow the government of President Bashar al-Assad, which is dominated by his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiism."


Illumination by Kathy Brahney

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Our Novena begins this Thursday, from Aug. 1st to Aug. 9th, with prayer below said every day at all Holy Trinity Parish gatherings and liturgies.  May many more church communities join in.

PRAYER FOR INTERCESSION OF BLESSED FRANZ JAGERSTATTER--FOR THE END OF OUR WARS IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN & ALL WARS

Lord Jesus Christ,

 

You filled your servant Franz Jägerstätter

with a deep love for you, his family and

all people.

During a time of contempt for God and

humankind you bestowed on him

unerring discernment and integrity.

In faith, he followed his conscience, and

said a decisive NO to the Nazi regime

and unjust war.

Thus he sacrificed his life.

We pray that you may glorify your

servant Franz, so that many people may

be encouraged by him and grow in love

for you and all people.

May his example shine out in our time,

and may you grant all people the

strength to stand up for justice, peace

and human dignity.

For yours is the glory and honor with

the Father and the Holy Spirit now and

forever. Amen.

(Prayer from the Diocese of Linz, Austria)

 

 

THE PLANTATION-IZATION OF DETROIT

This is the changed hands church, recently The Promise Land Church, now in foreclosure, that one sees vacant spires, in Poletown to the south passing by on I-94

St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Roman Catholic Church--National Register of Historic Places-Wikipedia Photo

 

“The Detroit bankruptcy filing will be a test case for how far a major U.S. city can go in dealing with a chronic problem facing many local and state governments: unsustainable pension costs.”  This is how one of the sub-headlines leads into an article in the 7-20-13 WSJ.  But what about unsustainable banking and investors costs?  As a story in their paper yesterday noted, Bank of America is likely to get 75 cents on their dollar, while Detroit’s pensioners, 10 cents on theirs.  Are the ‘entitlements’ of banks and stockholders always more morally and fiscally valid than those of common workers? 

The city was not even allowed to face its fiscal crisis on its own terms.  If bad mistakes were made by many over decades of shifting auto industry, let the citizens of Detroit figure out how to fix it, and who to ask for help.  Let them do their own bankruptcy, if necessary.  Are there no Detroit management teams and lawyers equal to the task? 
 

nstead, we have the plantation-ization of Detroit’s 80% African American population.   [Stockton, CA, the previous largest U.S. bankrupt city, had no emergency manager.]  Detroit’s restructuring is imposed by a Republican state government, local power usurped by an emergency manager and his corporate law firm, Jones Day {a global company that employs more than 2,400 lawyers in 37 cities on five continents}.  These are the outsiders who will now make the decisions [and millions in legal fees] on how this once magnificent city will be sold off, and re-branded.

America is on collision course to become the most well-to-do, heavily class-divided society in modern history—rich and relatively poor, with disappearing middle class.  A monarchy of 1%, dependent on 99% serfdom.  Promises no longer have meaning unless they’re made within the plutocracy.  The bankruptcy of Detroit reflects a bankruptcy of our merciless egotistical economic system. 

 

White flight and globalization blight helped doom Detroit.  Sons and daughter of slaves, and many other immigrants, were recruited to build Detroit big, and then there was a race of the promoters to abscond to other places, leaving the Johnny-come-latelies to turn out the lights.
  What does it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  Mk 8:36
 

Abandoned confessionals in anonymous vacant Detroit church--photo by Zach Fein

Unconfessed sins are oft-repeated; there are plenty of "mea culpas" to go around.

 

 

For a good examination of one of the many episodes of power and money mis-management that has plagued Detroit, please read the late, beloved Jeanie Wylie-Kellerman's Poletown: Community Betrayed, available at the St. Clair Co. Library and at Amazon

 

 

Illumination by Kathy Brahney



IT'S BETTER TO LIGHT UP A FEW IRS FORMS, THAN TO CURSE THE DARKNESS OF WAR

{The story of Haditha, Iraq--delayed another week, to bring you this short report.}

There were six to eight of us gathered in the green-space that divides the road between our St. Clair County library and courthouse.  It was almost noon on July 3^rd the day before the holiday, as one of our signs declared, We pray for Peace, Why pay for War?  And another: Independence from War Tax Day—Check your W-4 on July 4^th to Convert War Tax to Peace Tax April 15^th.

We prayed the Our Father first, being spontaneously joined by an acquaintance of Lyn Chabot as we held hands.  Then we sang “Amazing Grace” led by my wife Ande’s guitar, followed by Lyn and I burning IRS 1099 and W-4 forms letting the ashes drop into a glass bowl of blue water.

This symbolized our efforts to minimize prepayment of federal income taxes that go to war, and redirecting some of that to community service, job creation, and peace projects near in the Blue Water area, or farther away—whatever conscience inspires on April 15^th.   But not having paid so much through the year, will leave some tax due to refuse, and redirect.

Much more smart money to flow in this type of direction--with ever greater focus and inspiration

This is a civil disobedience, with the tax payer advising the IRS openly, of the purpose to not pay all the tax due [amount an individual decision]—redirecting to peaceful enterprise.  The IRS will send letters, and there’s some cost to this discipleship, but help is available on the details from the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee.

The wind complicated the burning of the forms, we could have used a sound system to make our presence better known.  Some people did stop, listen and took our literature; two did join in for a while.  But it will take perhaps 1040 citizens of our area, resisting and redirecting their tax money in this way to make significant difference.  We want to keep the positive message, of moving more and more of the {an average over the 40 years I've studied this issue} 50% of federal income tax that goes to war --- > towards investment in the common good.

either conservatives nor liberals are happy with the powerful moneyed politics that leads our country.   The common citizen is not being listened to.  We must learn to vote with our money, as the powerful do.  April 15^th becomes the new second Tuesday in November.  This tax redirection is one of a number of lifestyle changes that people can make to better participate in a real community-responsible democracy. 

 

 

From Afghanistan to Iraq, Libya, Syria, and so many other wars, our money is being badly used.  Gandhi said, “Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty, as cooperation with the good.”  For the Christian especially the question is—when you’ve rendered fully to God what is God’s, what is left for Caesar’s wars?

 

 

Friends Committee for National Legislation includes the separate Medicare insurance fund income taxes in its figures, War Resisters League does not.   http://fcnl.org/assets/flyer/FCNL_Taxes12.pdf

https://www.warresisters.org/content/how-pie-chart-figures-were-determined