Federal War Spending Exceeds State Government Outlays

[Hannah Bell]

The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education, welfare, and safety of 308 million Americans.

Joseph Henchman, director of state projects for the Tax Foundation of Washington, D.C. says the states collected a total of $781 billion in taxes in 2008.

For a rough comparison, according to Wikipedia data, the total budget for defense in fiscal year 2010 will be at least $880 billion and could possibly top $1 trillion. That’s more than all the state governments collect.

Henchman says all American local governments combined (cities, counties, etc.) collect about $500 billion in taxes. Add that to total state tax take and you get over $1.3 trillion. This means Uncle Sam’s Pentagon is sopping up nearly as much money as all state, county, city, and other governmental units spend to run the country.

http://pubrecord.org/nation/6376/federal-spending-exceeds-state/

[ShortnFiery]

1. But seemingly nobody dare challenge our illustrious MIC. That's both tragic and pathetic. eom

[frog92969]

2. So the MIC is literaly spending us to death

That sounds like the real national security threat.

"ain't no time to wonder why WOOPIE we're all gonna die"

[leftstreet]

3. K&R

Good God

[Hannah Bell]

4. war goods are great for profits. build them, taxpayers pay for them (at inflated prices),

blow them up, start the cycle again. the market never gets saturated with product.

they're built to be destroyed. same thing as paying people to dig ditches & fill them up again.

[Union Yes]

5. A doctrine of warpiggery and 'Capitalize or you'll get hurt' is a fukt doctrine. knr nt

[Marblehead]

6. this is so discouraging

shows how much power the MIC have over our government