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The lead infographic explicitly includes interest payments. Either way, this is tangental to what I said, which is that we are spending $50B per year now, whic
by bpodgursky 5y ago
The lead infographic explicitly includes interest payments.
Either way, this is tangental to what I said, which is that we are spending $50B per year now, which is accurate: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/09/12/the-annual-cost-of-the-war-in-afghanistan-since-2001-infographic/?sh=567e60191971 https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/09/12/the-an...
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThe distinction is future interest payments.
- bpodgursky 5y agoBy that definition, any federal spending at all has infinite cost, because the national debt is never going to get repaid — it just compounds forever.