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A US military budget of $660,000,000,000 means each person the USA is paying $2030 to fund the military (including children). At the Federal minimum wage, after
by linuxlizard 8y ago
A US military budget of $660,000,000,000 means each person the USA is paying $2030 to fund the military (including children). At the Federal minimum wage, after taxes, that's 47 full working days to pay it off.
So that seems like a lot more to me.
- ohithereyou 8y agoLuckily, we can focus on more than one thing at a time. We can oppose foreign interventionist wars and reform the tax code at the same time.
- tick_tock_tick 8y agoSo our whole military is funded from only 2k a person. That's amazing! I always thought military was a huge part of the budget but it's clearly not.
- jeffbax 8y agoThe military budget being too big doesn't mean that the IRS budget isn't either. Our tax code is absurd, and held captive to interests that like to keep it that way (the wealthy who can dodge or bother to itemize expenses, and companies who get to tax us to figure out how it all works). We should fix that and reduce the IRS budget further, as well as reduce military spending.
- smsm42 8y agoI think having best military in the world for only $2K per year is not bad a deal. I spend more on gym membership. Of course, given that not each person in the US actually pays taxes, and of those who does, they are distributed very unevenly, my actual share is significantly higher, so I wouldn't mind some cuts there.