What If Your Paycheck Withheld Defense Spending Too?

TW: A blogger at Rortybomb came up with a nudge concept related to tax witholding and the defense budget. As you now, there is witholding already for social security and medicare, two of the three largest components of the federal budget. Would delineating the third component, defense, influence how folks frame the hundreds of billions we spend on national defense as compared to the hundreds of billions we spend on health care and social security.

From Rortybomb:
"Here’s my simple idea. Let’s say your salary is $60,000/year, and you take one exemption. According to this paycheck calculator, this is what your pay stub looks like every two weeks, leaving the States out of it

Now let’s do one of those informational nudge things. Taking numbers from the Federal Budget from here, what if your paycheck looked like this instead, which is the same paycheck:"

http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/my-friendly-nudge-of-the-day/