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If anyone is curious, there's a good breakdown here: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/a
by lolinder 2y ago
If anyone is curious, there's a good breakdown here:
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
Social Security, Health, and Medicare alone account for 49% of the budget, to National Defense's 13%.
- csomar 2y ago18% is more accurate as it includes veteran care.
- blitzar 2y agoIt is a moral imperative to include the cost of looking after the people you feed through a meat grinder once you have ground them up and spat them out in the calculation of how much the machine costs.
- creato 2y agoA big chunk of that healthcare would just be under Medicare/Medicaid anyways though, so it doesn't seem reasonable to ascribe all veteran health spending as military.
- Tostino 2y agoIt does when a huge portion of the injuries military personnel sustain are quite different from the genteel public, and wouldn't have happened if that person decided to be a teacher instead.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoTo put a finer point on it, VA care for Irag+Afghanistan is expected to drive the cost of these two wars to something in the ballpark of $2 Trillion USD. Like I went to Iraq twice and I'm only 40. They're gonna be covering me for probably another ~40 years, and the US is owned lock and stock by healthcare companies that sure as hell aren't going to lower the costs of medicines.
- 0xbadcafebee 2y agoThat 13% is still more than the next 9 highest military budgets in the world combined. We're not financing our military, we're lining the pockets of the military industrial complex, on the taxpayer's dime.
- thwarted 2y agoThe military industrial complex is a socialist jobs program, both for those directly on the DOD's payroll and for the employees of the firms that contract with the government under the auspices of the military.
- andyferris 2y agoMany/most countries have national tax and not (any or as much) state taxes. To compare across nations you’d need to divide the expenditure by the national sum of the taxes of the various government levels.
- Vegenoid 2y agoI don’t understand your point here, isn’t comparing US military spending to other countries’ military spending in terms of USD a fair comparison?