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Budget Goes Military

by Dave Lindorff idVer:9c5622abfcadb2ad1cd106880 Tuesday, Mar. 28, 2017 at 2:13 AM

No wonder Americans aren’t freaking out about how much of their tax dollar goes to the military. They think it’s 16 cents of each dollar, when it’s really the percentage of the discretionary budget, which is that 63 cents on the dollar.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/27/budget-goes-military/

March 27, 2017

Budget Goes Military

by Dave Lindorff

Economist Dean Baker, in an article published at NationofChange, complains that the New York Times never explains the federal budget in a way that Americans can comprehend, because it publishes big numbers, like the billions of dollars spent on welfare or on foreign aid, but never notes that neither of those “big” numbers amounts to even 1% of the federal budget. His critique is correct as far as it goes, but like all too many liberal analysts, Baker studiously fails to note a few really BIG numbers in the budget that also don’t get mentioned by the Times and the rest of the corporate media, either as a number or as a percentage.

This is a big failing of the liberal left: not calling out the Hannibal’s war elephant in the room.

Military spending, even when it does get reported, is often only referred to in terms of the increase being proposed, without the total ever being provided. It is reported (in the Times!) wrong in so many ways. For example, while the actual budget outlay is sometimes mentioned, the amount of the interest on the debt that is for prior military spending that was financed through borrowing is not included. Nor is the spending on veterans’ health care, which is surely part of military spending. Nor is the share of the Energy Dept. budget that is for nuclear weapons included. According to the National Priorities Project, the 2015 budget for the military was 8 billion, which represented 54% of all federal discretionary spending. That number didn’t include billion in veterans spending and billion for nuclear weapons, bringing the total to about 0 billion, or 63% of all discretionary spending. 2015 total discretionary spending was .1 trillion, including nuke spending and veterans spending, spending on the military represented 63% of the total.

continued at http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/27/budget-goes-military/
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