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The military is 60 percent of the budget.
by bitJericho 10y ago
The military is 60 percent of the budget.
- ra1n85 10y agoIt's not. Defense comes in at 15% of federal spending. Social security and medicare combined come in at 4x that amount. Source:http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate
- nickthemagicman 10y agoBetter link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget#/media/File:U.S._Federal_Spending.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta...
- findateamfirst 10y agoThose are non discretionary and funded by totally separate channels.
- ra1n85 10y agoAnd? Mandatory spending is more than twice that of discretionary. Of discretionary, defense makes up less than 50%.
- spott 10y agoI'm not sure where you are getting your numbers: care to elaborate? This[0] directly contradicts you: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/ https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
- ra1n85 10y agoHere: http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate Mandatory: 2.56T Discretionary: 1.08T
- yardie 10y agoLumping social security in with taxes? You must be very good with numbers.
- ra1n85 10y agoI'll ignore the ad hominem. Minus SS, it's still less than 21% of total federal spending.
- 1_2__3 10y agoIf you're going to concede that point (ss) then the same applies to Medicare. This completely destroying your argument coincidentally.
- ra1n85 10y agoIt doesn't. Defense spending is not 60% of the "budget". Further, it's not a large component of the total federal budget.
- peteretep 10y ago> I'll ignore the ad hominem Insulting someone's intelligence is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy.
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- xenadu02 10y agoYeah and they take a very specific tax out of everyone's paycheck to pay for those two programs. If you want to have an argument about them that's fine but they have separate budgets and should be discussed separately.
- gpawl 10y agoThey are both taxes. All else equal, taxpayers would happily pay 1pts more income tax and 2pt less social security, or vice versa. All my tax dollars are the same color.
- CalChris 10y ago> The military is 60 percent of the budget. 50% of the discretionary budget. You were embarrassingly close. https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-2016/graphic/51112-discretionaryspending.pdf https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...
- bitJericho 10y agoI prefer to include veteran benefits.