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by dragonwriter
2032 days ago
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> Yet, despite that, military spending dominates government budgets in the US. Only when you ignore the nearly 2/3 of spending that is “mandatory spending” and focus exclusively on “discretionary spending" does military dominate; it's about 1/6 of overall spending; healthcare, which is a major component of mandatory spending and also has some share of discretionary is about a time and half as much. US has enormous per GDP, and even moreso per capita, defense spending, there's no need to exaggerate it's significance. |
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