What does the United States spend on the military?We had this argument over this last week, and i've finally been able to find my source. The government spent $258,069,000,000.00 in 1999 and $279,110,000,000.00 in 2000 on the military according to congressman Christopher Cox who published this report. This amount represents 13% of all national expenditures, behind only social spending at 56% and interest on the national debt at 17%. I doubt that this has fallen to four percent in just the last three years. UPDATE: Congressman Cox has this report for the year 2002 describing US military spending as representing 13.5% of the total pie, even though total military spending rose to $309,527,000,000.00. |
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