What is defense spending?
91309
Spending on salaries of soldiers, spending on weaponry, spending on intelligence, spending on the navy, spending on military equipment, things like this.
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That is an extremely complex question, because it has several factors like:\n - economic stability/vitality\n - defense/research/training spending\n - current military ranking/inventories\n - Command & Control structure\n - nuclear power?\n - national defense policy (aggressive/defensive)\n\nSomeone mentioned Jane's.  That is a good source, but you have to pay. If you want a free source use the CIA World Factbook.  Just google it. It will give you all kinds of info.\n\nP.S. Ignore the previous post, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
206036
No.  As is always the case in war time most of the current deficit is going to defense spending.  Even before the 1930's when the government used to try to keep the budget balanced and the U.S. out of debt, there was always a budget deficit in times of war.  the amount of money spent on foreign assistance is a very small portion of the U.S. Budget.
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If you mean, you need help figuring out how much the federal government will spend on computers and the like, start here:\n\nhttp://www.business.gov/topics/government_contracting/procurement_library/index.html\n\nYou can also try the Congressional Budget Office:\n\nhttp://www.cbo.gov/
487304
A whole bunch of things\n\n-National defense\n-International aid\n-Research on space, energy and other things\n-Natural resources, such as water\n-Agriculture\n-Post office\n-Transportation (roads, etc.)\n-Education\n-Social services\n-Health care/Medicare\n-Income support, such as Social Security\n-Administration of the general bureaucracy\n-Interest on the debt
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nThe ATF budget is part of the federal budget which is funded through federal income tax, federal excise taxes and revenue tariffs. Funds that originate from the sale of confiscated property can be used to suppliment salaries or fund law enforncement operations. \n\nGood luck.
972176
One of the core beliefs of the democratic party is the government can save money by cutting the military and buffing it with a draft when we are at war.  This was done in WWI and WWII and continued on through Vietnam.
161714
i think that it is about time... too many of the decisions for military spending is up to Congress. my opinion is that a seperate board should be constructed to vote on new upgrades for the military.
317776
god knows what the heck they are doing. The government don't tell us how they are spending the money completely. Thats how corrupt the government is keeping secrets of the so hard earned money is being wasted to secret projects.
238444
To have deficit spending
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Many states capital budgets are  primarily funded through the issuance of state general obligation bonds. Items funded in capital budgets often include land acquisition, repair, renovation and construction of state facilities; acquisition, construction and repair of state parks, schools, trails, interpretive centers, campground facilities, forests, wildlife management areas, dams and flood control structures.\n\nLease pruchase contracts are also used to purchase vehicles, equipment and other large non real estate purchase.
817361
Do the time and find out the real facts.  70 cents of every dollar paid in taxes goes toward welfare and social service in the U.S.  Only the following thirty cents goes to infrastructure -- of that less than 7 percent goes to  defense and the bulk of that goes to local police , firemen etc, far from a militaristic imperialistic society.. If your thoughts held true, at the zenith of our military advantage, after WW II , when we had the atom bomb and no one else did, when we were producing an average of a battleship a day, we would not have stopped at Germany and Japan but continued on easily to world domination.
781489
The US NASA budget for 2005 is about 17 billion dollars. That is nothing much compared to the untold billions spent on such garbage as the current Iraq war in terms of return on investment.
857105
Well, there are some "wonderful" things we do with tax money.  But there's also alot of waste and we spend money on things we probably shouldn't.  \n\nThere are no programs, that I know of, in the federal government where a decent business case of cost/benefit is performed.  We have programs around that have been there for decades and we have no idea if they're still worth doing.   We spend tons of money on things that benefit a very small number of people- tons of pork dollars go to building things fed dollars should never fund and that we frankly can't afford.\n\nWe invest money in research and often times allow the patents (our public patents) to be used by private industry for little to nothing.  then, we as consumers get to pay tons for either drugs, medical care or consumer products that we the public funded to develop.  How does that make sense?\n\nAt this point, 25%+ of the fed budget goes to the military\nAbout 20% or more (I think) goes to pay interest ONLY on the debt.  We never retire any principle on our debt.\n\nLocal taxes etc. is a slightly different story-- still have waste and inefficiecy though.\n\nI personally don't see what I get for my tax dollars (at the federal level) other than things like roads, national parks (which I have to pay to use), consumer protection laws (marginally benefit me that I can tell), college (I paid my tuition-but fed/state dollars go to Universities).  I have never taken advantage of any federal programs, no subisdies, so welfare/TANF.  So what am I getting for my money?  Not much that I can see.  Yet I pay quite a bit of dough each year to the fed and state.  More than alot of people make in a year.  \n\nWe get taxed for pretty much everything we come in contact with-- think about it.  Income, consumption of all sorts, gasoline, phone, utilities, property.  Next thing you know, they're going to tax the air we breath.  Its get tiresome and eats away at everybody's earnings.
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That's the definition of GDP.\nGDP = consumption + investment + government spending + net exports\n\nSo, fiscal spending bumps up the government spending part directly.  It also has the trickle effect of putting more money into the economy.  In turn, the consumers will have more consumption and/or investment with the additional income.
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So far the American Government has spent $275 BILLION dollors on the War in Iraq!\n\nApproximately:\n28.5% of your Federal Taxes go to the military, that was in 2005. I can imagine now it's like 35%.\n\nBut, the American Army can kill the Chinese, if we let our Army rebuild, and give it some time. We can end them communists!
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The DOD funds science