Make War History promotes an approach where...

Editor's note: ...individuals in the UK who oppose war redirect their tax payments into a legal trust rather than paying the government directly, with the state named as the eventual beneficiary but only able to access the funds if it can demonstrate they will not be used for war. Framed as a principled use of trust law and international legal concepts, the idea is that citizens can withhold financial support from military activity while still setting aside what they owe. The same concept is presented as adaptable beyond the UK, suggesting that Americans could use a similar trust-based structure to align their tax payments with their ethical opposition to war. 
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The American People Should Not Be Forced to Fund Israel's Atrocities

April 15, 2026 | By Connor O'Keeffe

Today is tax day. It's a day where Americans everywhere are forced to reflect on all the income we've been forced to hand over to the government. Unpleasant as that is by itself, it's also worth going a step further and using the occasion to reflect on what the government is using our money for.

There are, of course, the big-ticket items. The programs the government spends the most money on: entitlements and war. The federal government spends trillions of dollars on generational wealth transfers like Social Security, demand-side healthcare subsidies like Medicare and Medicaid that have caused the price of healthcare to skyrocket for everybody (including those dependent on government support), and a massive war-making apparatus that is constantly creating new enemies by attempting to maintain a costly global empire—not to mention, by the way, all the wealth siphoned away from us by the government through inflation.

There's plenty there to get upset about. But, these days, there's another use of our tax dollars that, while not as quantitatively dramatic, is quickly, understandably, and rightfully coming under a lot of scrutiny: foreign aid to the Israeli government.

This is not a new spending program. The US government has been sending money to the Israeli government for decades. In total, Israel has received far more "foreign aid" from the US than any other government. And most of that money—especially in recent years—has gone to the Israeli military.

Also, much of this transfer has taken the form of recurring annual payments. So it's not really accurate to think of this as foreign aid as most people understand it. It's more accurate to say that a portion of Israeli government programs are funded by American taxpayers and have been for a long time.

This setup has been remarkably uncontroversial with the American public for nearly its entire existence. It's remarkable because these are literally taxes being paid to a foreign government and because that government has carried out abhorrent atrocities since its founding—the exact kinds of atrocities Americans have prided themselves on opposing.

There are a lot of reasons for that persistent public and institutional support, ranging from tribalism to apathy. But a primary reason has been the success of the Israel lobby.

As I explained a few weeks ago, the massive war-making apparatus in DC was not built up to current levels because that was in the interest of the American people, but because it was in the interest of all the government bureaucrats and officials making up the "national security state" and the weapons companies and other "defense" contractors who stood to benefit.

These groups are perpetually lobbying heavily for more money, more power, and more foreign interventions. But their interest in growth is constant and largely indifferent to geopolitics. As long as the warfare state keeps growing and never shrinks, they will be happy.

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Sometimes the brutal truth is a hard pill to swallow especially when it comes to taxes. The American system based on the US Constitution had an entirely different approach to taxes than the citizen subject tax slaves in Britain:

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