Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military.
How did this situation come to be? In thi.
Such big expenditures are now threatening to harm the national economy.
You can\'t have big wars without big government.
Before World War II it spent almost nothing on defense and hardly anyone paid any income taxes.
It accounts for over 46% of total world arms spending.
Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military