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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 04:18 PM

secondwind (3,825 posts)

Does anyone have handy the percentage of our GDP that goes toward military spending?

And does that include medical costs, prostheses, etc.??

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Does anyone have handy the percentage of our GDP that goes toward military spending? (Original post)	secondwind	Jul 2012	OP
someone did post a graph	KT2000	Jul 2012	#1
Last time I looked it was 40%	RegieRocker	Jul 2012	#2
40% is probably relative to the federal budget	caraher	Aug 2012	#4
Not quite 6%	Angleae	Jul 2012	#3

Response to secondwind (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 05:25 PM

KT2000 (9,715 posts)

1. someone did post a graph

but this I do know - Medical costs come under the VA budget, not the Dept. of Defense. It is kept separate intentionally.

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 05:55 PM

RegieRocker (4,226 posts)

2. Last time I looked it was 40%

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Wed Aug 1, 2012, 12:17 AM

caraher (3,566 posts)

4. 40% is probably relative to the federal budget

or perhaps of discretionary spending

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Tue Jul 31, 2012, 02:12 AM

Angleae (2,068 posts)

3. Not quite 6%

$903 billion military spending (http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_military_spending_30.html)
GDP of $15.596 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States)

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