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$1.6 trillion of military spending per year

Posted on September 30, 2012 Author admin Comments Off on $1.6 trillion of military spending per year

including $400 billion in interest payments on debt from prior wars.
Where do 53% of your Tax dollars go?
To fund the most enormous war machine the world has ever known.  Our defense budget is larger than the next 26 countries’ combined.

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