53.3% of Your Tax Bill Goes to the Military

[Political Junky]

Imagine if that amount went to healthcare and infrastructure.

More Than 53 Percent of Your Tax Bill Goes to the Military // Current

 

[DiamondDave]

But the federal government is charged with the nation's defense... not to ensure you get your VD shot

 

[boedicca]

That is complete nonsense.

Out of a $3.6T federal budget for 2010, $664B is for defense.

More than twice that amount is spent on SS, Medicare and Medicaid.

(CurrentTV is Al Gore's propaganda arm.)

 

[VaYank5150]

That is complete nonsense.

Out of a $3.6T federal budget for 2010, $664B is for defense.

More than twice that amount is spent on SS, Medicare and Medicaid.

(CurrentTV is Al Gore's propaganda arm.)

Here's to guessing Boedicca didn't bother to read the article before making himself look stupid again..

The budget for the 2011 fiscal year, which has to be voted by Congress by this October 1, looks to be about $3 trillion, not counting funds collected for Social Security (since the Vietnam War, the government has included the Social Security Trust Fund in the budget as a way to make the cost of America's imperial military adventures seem smaller in comparison to the total cost of government). Meanwhile, the military share of the budget works out to about $1.6 trillion.

That figure includes the Pentagon budget request of $708 billion, plus an estimated $200 billion in supplemental funding, called "overseas contingency funding" in euphemistic White House-speak), to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, some $40 billion or more in "black box" intelligence agency funding, $94 billion in non-DoD military spending, $100 billion in veterans benefits and health care spending, and $400 billion in interest on debt raised to pay for prior wars and the standing military.

 

[The Rabbi]

That is complete nonsense.

Out of a $3.6T federal budget for 2010, $664B is for defense.

More than twice that amount is spent on SS, Medicare and Medicaid.

(CurrentTV is Al Gore's propaganda arm.)

Here's to guessing Boedicca didn't bother to read the article before making himself look stupid again..

The budget for the 2011 fiscal year, which has to be voted by Congress by this October 1, looks to be about $3 trillion, not counting funds collected for Social Security (since the Vietnam War, the government has included the Social Security Trust Fund in the budget as a way to make the cost of America's imperial military adventures seem smaller in comparison to the total cost of government). Meanwhile, the military share of the budget works out to about $1.6 trillion.

That figure includes the Pentagon budget request of $708 billion, plus an estimated $200 billion in supplemental funding, called "overseas contingency funding" in euphemistic White House-speak), to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, some $40 billion or more in "black box" intelligence agency funding, $94 billion in non-DoD military spending, $100 billion in veterans benefits and health care spending, and $400 billion in interest on debt raised to pay for prior wars and the standing military.

Actually she looks a lot smarter than the dildo who wrote that propaganda piece.

 

[VaYank5150]

That is complete nonsense.

Out of a $3.6T federal budget for 2010, $664B is for defense.

More than twice that amount is spent on SS, Medicare and Medicaid.

(CurrentTV is Al Gore's propaganda arm.)

Here's to guessing Boedicca didn't bother to read the article before making himself look stupid again..

The budget for the 2011 fiscal year, which has to be voted by Congress by this October 1, looks to be about $3 trillion, not counting funds collected for Social Security (since the Vietnam War, the government has included the Social Security Trust Fund in the budget as a way to make the cost of America's imperial military adventures seem smaller in comparison to the total cost of government). Meanwhile, the military share of the budget works out to about $1.6 trillion.

That figure includes the Pentagon budget request of $708 billion, plus an estimated $200 billion in supplemental funding, called "overseas contingency funding" in euphemistic White House-speak), to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, some $40 billion or more in "black box" intelligence agency funding, $94 billion in non-DoD military spending, $100 billion in veterans benefits and health care spending, and $400 billion in interest on debt raised to pay for prior wars and the standing military.

Actually she looks a lot smarter than the dildo who wrote that propaganda piece.

Can you refute the numbers or no, snookie?

 

[boedicca]

That is complete nonsense.

Out of a $3.6T federal budget for 2010, $664B is for defense.

More than twice that amount is spent on SS, Medicare and Medicaid.

(CurrentTV is Al Gore's propaganda arm.)

Here's to guessing Boedicca didn't bother to read the article before making himself look stupid again..

The budget for the 2011 fiscal year, which has to be voted by Congress by this October 1, looks to be about $3 trillion, not counting funds collected for Social Security (since the Vietnam War, the government has included the Social Security Trust Fund in the budget as a way to make the cost of America's imperial military adventures seem smaller in comparison to the total cost of government). Meanwhile, the military share of the budget works out to about $1.6 trillion.

That figure includes the Pentagon budget request of $708 billion, plus an estimated $200 billion in supplemental funding, called "overseas contingency funding" in euphemistic White House-speak), to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, some $40 billion or more in "black box" intelligence agency funding, $94 billion in non-DoD military spending, $100 billion in veterans benefits and health care spending, and $400 billion in interest on debt raised to pay for prior wars and the standing military.

I read it.

It's bogus math. If you are going to add interest on the debt etc - then do that for all government programs.

Entitlements DWARF military spending.

 

[KissMy]

 

[Terry]

did you know that part of the defense bill pays for Department of Defense Dependent Schools? (Military kids overseas with their family) Not only that the Military since Congress in the past reduced our enlisted force had to go to civilian hire in order to maintain force protection.

 

[Charles Stucker]

Imagine if that amount went to healthcare and infrastructure.

More Than 53 Percent of Your Tax Bill Goes to the Military // Current

What a flat out lie.
First - Socialist Security IS a tax, otherwise payment into the system would be, what was that technical term, oh yes, OPTIONAL
Second - the article conveniently lumps interest on debt into the military.
Third - While I would rather have a much smaller military - one capable solely of defending our nation and not able to get involved overseas - I would still prefer to see money spent on the military to being spent on welfare, which was the historic choice.
Fourth - that amount would not help either health care or infrastructure, as it would be wasted by Oscama in bribes to his cronies.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Imagine if that amount went to healthcare and infrastructure.

More Than 53 Percent of Your Tax Bill Goes to the Military // Current

The military is actually a REQUIRED spending in the Constitution, Social Programs and health care are NOT.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

From your link.

it is a good time to stop and consider how much of your money goes to pay for our bloated and largely useless and pointless military.

Followed by me tuning out anything the retard and his buddies that wrote that have to say.

 

[ihopehefails]

Imagine if that amount went to healthcare and infrastructure.

More Than 53 Percent of Your Tax Bill Goes to the Military // Current

Imagine if I kept that money for myself instead of it being taxed away?

 

[Avatar4321]

Imagine if the government stopped wasting our money and let us keep 3/4 of the money they take from us now.

We could afford our own health care.

We could have a sane defense and foreign strategy.

We wouldnt be owing trillions of dollars we dont have to others.

 

[The Rabbi]

Imagine if blue monkeys flew out my ass.
The OP is the typical leftist agitprop. Major fail.

 

[rdean]

That is complete nonsense.

Out of a $3.6T federal budget for 2010, $664B is for defense.

More than twice that amount is spent on SS, Medicare and Medicaid.

(CurrentTV is Al Gore's propaganda arm.)

The two wars cost 3 trillion. How does that fit in?

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Why doesn't the public understand the staggering scale of our expenditures? In part because the administration talks only about the upfront costs, which are mostly handled by emergency appropriations. (Iraq funding is apparently still an emergency five years after the war began.) These costs, by our calculations, are now running at $12 billion a month -- $16 billion if you include Afghanistan. By the time you add in the costs hidden in the defense budget, the money we'll have to spend to help future veterans, and money to refurbish a military whose equipment and materiel have been greatly depleted, the total tab to the federal government will almost surely exceed $1.5 trillion.

The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More - washingtonpost.com

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This is how Bush was able to avoid putting the cost of the wars into his budget. See, Obama added the cost, which is one of the reasons his budget swelled. We finally get an honest president and the moral right hates his guts.

The white wing was "tricked" and "owned".