• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    3% of GDP is fucking massive. Also, if you read the fine print, any costs related to veterans are shunted over to nondefense discretionary payments or other mandatory payments, which is a neat little accounting trick. Defense costs don’t include veterans. So where else in the budget are we hiding the fact that we’re paying for our wars?