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Oh my. Can someone check my numbers? France revenue: 953,000 million EUR Military budget: 41,300 million EUR (approx) = 4.33% of tax revenue mi

Oh my. Can someone check my numbers? France revenue: 953,000 million EUR Military budget: 41,300 million EUR (approx) = 4.33% of tax revenue military spending vs USA revenue: 4,260,000 million USD Military budget: 597,500 million USD = 14.03% of tax revenue military spending Damn. I used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_... (2015 numbers) https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-states.pdf https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-states.pd... https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-france.pdf https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-france.pdf

gaius 10y ago
I believe your numbers are accurate but I also don't think that they tell the whole story. Is France's subsidy of Airbus military spending? Because America's subsidy of Boeing is. Is French scientific research spending military? Because America spends its research dollars via DARPA. And so on...
sean2 10y ago
If I understand your process, you multiplied US GDP by average tax burden, which makes sense, but here's another source that added other sources up: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/total_revenue_2015USrn http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/total_revenue_2015USrn and got ~6,500 billon USD for USA Revenue. Using the same military budget, that makes = 7.69% of tax on military budget. I think I see why everyone uses GDP: tax revenue is difficult to calculate, especially when it involves 50 states and a few territories.