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  • TyrionsNose@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzbro pls
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    1 year ago

    But we spend nearly $200 billion just paying salaries. We spend the most because we are also an expensive country to live in and that means paying the folks who volunteer a decent wage.

    We would have to significantly downsize the military personnel and pretty much operate as homeland defense only.


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    1 year ago

    This comment doesn’t even make sense. For example, the USA government spent 37% compared to the GDP.

    If you mean 10% of government spending towards science then that question makes sense.

    The USA spends about $75billion of the $800billion defense budget on R&D. It spends another $120billion on non-defense R&D.

    Which is about 1/31 of federal spending for the US.