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Proposed U.S. Discretionary Spending Budget for 2016

8/24/2015

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via Brian Gruber and The Vision Project
As a proportion of the total 1.15 trillion USD Discretionary Budget

From the National Priorities Project:
A useful set of charts from the National Priorities Project. 54% of discretionary spending is military. That doesn’t include numerous spending areas from homeland security to veteran’s benefits which, by some estimates bring total spending close to one trillion dollars. Veteran’s benefits account for $10 billion per year more than all discretionary medicare and health spending. A question that can’t be answered might be what costs would be saved, putting aside unfathomable human pain and suffering, if the wars necessitating the often lifetime treatment were not waged.”
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