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> dropping bombs on brown people. That's the vast majority of where the money goes. Military spending is about 7% of the Federal budget. But roughly 50% is us
by rphlx 9y ago
> dropping bombs on brown people. That's the vast majority of where the money goes.
Military spending is about 7% of the Federal budget. But roughly 50% is used for social transfer payments, which is - to keep your phrasing - a net transfer of money to brown people, including ones who are not even US citizens. Of course it's also a substantial transfer to relatively asset-rich, old, white people via social security and medicare. In any event the claim that US military adventurism is a primary or majority use of tax receipts is simply wrong.