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germinalphrase
75 days ago
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A US military exercise to launch a satellite on sh...
You have a source to share for that framing of the tax spend?
blobcode
75 days ago
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Although not quite exact, here's spending data for 2024 (
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/static-data/published-report...
) - about 14% of tax dollars went to defence, 0.14*17000=2380.
rayiner
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That’s just federal spending. $17,000 sounds too high to just be federal taxes, it looks like federal + state/local. Accounting for that, military spending is closer to 10%.
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