Funding the Military

• $581 billion USA military budget in 2014 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget
• 53% of Americacn tax money funds the military - about $1.3Trillion - [1]. Note: these figures are questionable, need more data.

Other

• Total taxes - federal, state, local - around $6.6 Trillion. Federal income tax is 2.6 trillion.
• US budget for 2018 - around $4 trillion - [2]
• Government spends about $600B more than it has - [3]. This is the deficit. Who pays for it?
• US Debt is about $20T, increasing $1T/year since 2007.