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I'd like to see that overlaid with military spending at the same scale. Probably wouldn't mean that much anymore, then.

Ah, well, not overlaid, not to scale, but nonetheless:

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/guides/tipsheet-pentagon-...

tl;dr

Military & Security Spending

In fiscal year 2015, Pentagon and related spending will total $598 billion, accounting for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending. That's roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined.

Peanuts!



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