The united states could build a space station capable of holding 500k people if it didn't wage war for at least 2-3...

The united states could build a space station capable of holding 500k people if it didn't wage war for at least 2-3 years
the military budget is 610 billion meanwhile nasa receives only 19 million

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Freedom aint free

Our military budget is only 2% of our gdp, we could achieve a lot if our taxes weren't basically nothing

powerful

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3% achkchually

More than half of the US military budget is spent on health care, education and other benefits for existing service members.

Remember, if somebody gets their legs blown off in Iraq in 2007, we have to keep paying for them for the next thirty to fifty years.

Still not much. Russia spends 5%

Do you imagine though how many science projects nasa could accomplish with 3% of the budget?
Seriously stop giving free money to other countries

there's quite a difference. Military spending was 49% of US gdp, it's 3% now

3% is not really that much, it's just that USA economy is so massive that it seems like a lot.
They need their military to exert influence all around the World which is a very profitable investment, meanwhile investing in a Space exploration doesn't yield much profits.

If we stop giving away money then we will be seen as the bad guys

If we cut our spending on browns we could do a lot.

>comparing military spending to gdp instead of government budget (where it amounts to 54%)
Morons

what is more important: having a tone of useless people orbiting the Earth or winning the arms race to China?

user, you are already are the bad guys. Refugees in europe? all because of USA overthrowing Libya and starting shit up in syria. Degeneracy across the world? Hollywood influence and your exportation of nigger thug culture. Globalism? you literally put up puppet politicians in countries like estonia with programs "make estonians accept diversity, make them more tolerant". I could go on and on
You are the bad guys

Government budget can be adjusted, GDP cannot
>degeneracy
Liberalism and feminism started in France
>hollywood
it's just movies man

If we cut our military funding to zero you would get annexed in a week litwa. Also our military subsidies encourage the subsidized nations to support our policies and ideologies, and establish our implicit hegemony over the west. A space station would be cool but the money wouldn't repay itself in the same way.

Government budget shows the state's priorities, not GDP.
When people say their country needs to cut on military spending to finance other projects, you don't tell them that "its only 3% of the gdp", you talk in fiscal policy terms.

I think his point is that the us government could significantly increase overall spending without significantly damaging the economy.

>Liberalism and feminism started in France
Your country started thanks to France as well, does it mean that France is responsible for all American achievement?

Obviously it can, no one implied otherwise, but my point is that it gives a wrong sense of scale when you speak of public spending in terms of GDP instead of budget.
For example this post would have you think Russia is spending a lot on their military, when in terms of government budget it's below 20%, they just have higher tax rates than the US

I was implying that Americans don't pay shit for taxes and we could achieve whatever we wanted if people were more willing to pay for it

>one shot at life on God's Green Earth
>wasn't born french

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How is degeneracy caused by Americans? euros are WAY more politically correct than Americans. Look at Sweden for example

you could move to poland, that's quite a step up

poles are even worse than shithuanians

you're right, but Americans do pay their fair share, that would require taxing the rich guys who evade it, and also happen to lobby your government to keep it that way.
That will take big reforms

>Remember, if somebody gets their legs blown off in Iraq in 2007, we have to keep paying for them for the next thirty to fifty years.
You make it sound like veteran support is undeserved after getting your legs blown off for your country.

>Our military budget is only 2% of our gdp
Can't tell if shitposting or just ignorant.

Not him but the vet clearly lost his legs for Israel.

their economy isn't though, you could at least lead a comfortable little human existence