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.
- 25% goes to war - 2013 - [2]
- 48% in 2018 - [3]
Other
- Forbest - The Costs of War- [4]
- Total taxes - federal, state, local - around $6.6 Trillion. Federal income tax is 2.6 trillion.
- US budget for 2018 - around $4 trillion - [5]
- Government spends about $600B more than it has - [6]. This is the deficit. Who pays for it?
- US Debt is about $20T, increasing $1T/year since 2007.
- US GDP is about $19T
