Follow Your Tax Dollars Across This Map to Unfriendly Nations

Amy Payne /

What’s worse than using taxpayer money for special interests and cronyism? Maybe sending taxpayer money to nations that aren’t the best friends of the United States.

The Export-Import Bank does both. It loans money to foreign companies and governments to buy products from politically favored American companies. Hard-working Americans are backing these loans.

This map shows just a few of the countries where your money is going.

Export-Import Bank Map: Subsidizing Unfriendly Regimes

 

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