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Well we spend over $1.25 trillion on the national security state, but we don't have money for full healthcare coverage in a pandemic. https://www.pogo.org/anal

Well we spend over $1.25 trillion on the national security state, but we don't have money for full healthcare coverage in a pandemic. https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2019/05/making-sense-of-the-1-25-trillion-national-security-state-budget/ https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2019/05/making-sense-of-the-1-...

google234123 5y ago
We've spent multiple trillions on this pandemic already (look at the national debt). Much more than on the military which has been declining as share of GDP since WW2.
- wombatpm 5y ago
  With what we spent on the War on Terror, every American could have had $15k a year for the last 20 years, yet healthcare is too expensive.
  - CrazyStat 5y ago
    You're off by at least an order of magnitude there. I see estimates from $6 trillion[1] to $8 trillion[2] for the cost of the war on terror. Taking the high estimate and the 2001 population of 285 million (i.e. ignoring population growth since 2001) gives $28k per person, or $1400 per year over 20 years. Accounting for population growth and taking the lower cost estimate decreases the amount further. [1] https://www.vox.com/22654167/cost-deaths-war-on-terror-afghanistan-iraq-911 https://www.vox.com/22654167/cost-deaths-war-on-terror-afgha... [2] https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
  - atdrummond 5y ago
    That’s off by an order of magnitude - that’s over $100T.
- long_time_gone 5y ago
  > Much more than on the military which has been declining as share of GDP since WW2. This was true until we started two different wars following 9/11.
  - google234123 5y ago
    There was a spike but it's been back to declining for a while now. I was talking about the overall trendline.
    - long_time_gone 5y ago
      The trend is pretty consistently between 3-6% since the early 1970s. When you start looking earlier than 1970, it was much higher due to Vietnam and WWII.

google234123 5y ago

We've spent multiple trillions on this pandemic already (look at the national debt). Much more than on the military which has been declining as share of GDP since WW2.

wombatpm 5y ago
With what we spent on the War on Terror, every American could have had $15k a year for the last 20 years, yet healthcare is too expensive.
- CrazyStat 5y ago
  You're off by at least an order of magnitude there. I see estimates from $6 trillion[1] to $8 trillion[2] for the cost of the war on terror. Taking the high estimate and the 2001 population of 285 million (i.e. ignoring population growth since 2001) gives $28k per person, or $1400 per year over 20 years. Accounting for population growth and taking the lower cost estimate decreases the amount further. [1] https://www.vox.com/22654167/cost-deaths-war-on-terror-afghanistan-iraq-911 https://www.vox.com/22654167/cost-deaths-war-on-terror-afgha... [2] https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
- atdrummond 5y ago
  That’s off by an order of magnitude - that’s over $100T.
long_time_gone 5y ago
> Much more than on the military which has been declining as share of GDP since WW2. This was true until we started two different wars following 9/11.
- google234123 5y ago
  There was a spike but it's been back to declining for a while now. I was talking about the overall trendline.
  - long_time_gone 5y ago
    The trend is pretty consistently between 3-6% since the early 1970s. When you start looking earlier than 1970, it was much higher due to Vietnam and WWII.