US Military Budget
The cluster revolves around debates on the size of the US military budget, its proportion relative to GDP, total federal spending, and comparisons to sectors like healthcare and education, with arguments both criticizing its scale and providing factual corrections.
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It is not a question of spending money on military, it is a question of how much. Last I checked, the US military budget is around 700B, while healthcare, education etc account for a tenth of that amount. Another question is, how much of this eye popping amount is wasted?
Shouldn't you say that about the US military budget that goes over 7OO billion dollar each year?
you can use military spending as a proxy.
Well US is putting like 54% of US yearly budget into military. That money must go somewhere. It makes sense it might produce best education. Compare it to 6% US is putting into education. I wonder what would happen if those two numbers were switched.
Maybe it's because spends a huge amount on military instead?
Defense is only 13% of federal spending: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...Military spending has actually decreased a lot as a % of GDP in the US over time, so old narratives about this have become less true. So the anti-military-spending orgs have to abuse the numbers if they want to keep that narrative going:<a hre
The US military budget is ~3.5% of GDP. It makes up about 10% of all government spending. 90% of your tax money does not go to war machines.
We spend $900bn on “defense” so not really ;)
That's hard to believe, considering how much the US spends on the military.
Because it's a moronic statement. The US military budget is 0.8 trillion dollars a year. As programmers we should know that no other budget items need be considered until this one is brought down drastically.