🧩 BND Motif Index · M814
Where our tax dollars go
Outrage at what the public's money pays for abroad, someone else's war, settlers, foreign governments, while people at home go without: American taxpayers literally pay for it.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Money and power
- 7claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 3center shows it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 3
🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast 🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ The Take (Al Jazeera)
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “The government prioritizes funding wars over feeding the poor.”
🎙️ Timcast IRL (podcast) - 2026-10-24 “The Biden administration prioritized funding wars in Israel and Ukraine over addressing the domestic cost of living crisis.”
🎙️ The Tucker Carlson Show - 2026-10-23 “The cost of the current war is in the hundreds of billions of dollars.”
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show - 2026-10-23 “The United States protects Israel from the consequences of its actions by intercepting missiles.”
🎙️ Breaking Points - 2026-10-21 “Donald Trump argues that American taxpayers are tired of providing hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine without receiving anything back.”
🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast - 2026-10-15 “Marine Le Pen says France can no longer afford to finance Ukraine.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-09 “Israeli settlers are increasingly attacking Palestinians in the West Bank.”
🎙️ Today, Explained 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ The Take (Al Jazeera)
M814 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-25 · what this is · how the index works