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The US spends about 600 billion on the military and about a trillion on Medicare and health. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-10
by ALittleLight 7y ago
The US spends about 600 billion on the military and about a trillion on Medicare and health.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/ https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
- mattigames 7y agoThat trillion in Medicare is due extremely overpriced supplies that in any other develop country would be exponentially cheaper.
- 1cvmask 7y agoDepends on how it is counted. If the budget was counted like other countries the defense budget would be over 1.2 trillion per year: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tom-dispatch-america-defense-budget-bigger-than-you-think/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tom-dispatch-ameri...