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POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
Cappytaino:
--- Quote from: Nonnel on January 15, 2018, 01:16:46 AM ---Looking into it, this chart is specifically about defense spending as a percentage of GDP (not money paid to keep NATO afloat,) so obviously Iceland is N/A since they don't have a standing army and we're spending more on military than we need to. So..
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I agree that the military spending is higher than it needs to be. I have high hopes for that audit currently ongoing to find out where $21 trillion in taxpayer money has disappeared to since 1990
Nonnel:
Same here.
Kevso:
--- Quote from: Cappytaino on January 15, 2018, 01:06:58 AM ---
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Lol Iceland is just relaxing.
devildogelite:
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52156
Most of our defense budget is spent on operations & maintenance, which regardless of military size has been increasing every year.
--- Quote from: Cappytaino on January 15, 2018, 01:22:20 AM ---I agree that the military spending is higher than it needs to be. I have high hopes for that audit currently ongoing to find out where $21 trillion in taxpayer money has disappeared to since 1990
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All of that money is only really unaccounted for on paper. Whatever was supposed to be purchased was most likely purchased and wound up wherever it was supposed to, just the bookkeeping for it is a mess and doesn't clearly show this.
Drydess:
the military budget really shouldn't ever be generalized as "military budget," that just ends up neglecting many things regardless of where you stand in the political spectrum
@poll though lol no. there's every reason to do exactly the opposite of what you're talking about, so unless some great power tried to nuke us out of the blue definitely not