Some estimates show between 54% to 57% of tax contributions (made by USA taxpayers) is spent on the military.
Some estimates lower this figure to 20% based on other calculations such as what spent directly on serving personnel and costs for existing hardware rather than conflate the percentage figure with total spending on research and development at military contractors and other expenses.
Imagine how much better of quality of life the average American would have if their taxes were spent in a far more conducive manner that could help those millions upon millions of citizens that are from underprivileged backgrounds.
What are your views on this? Does the US really have to spend that much on military expenditure? Could those tax dollars be spent in more appropriate ways?
Here are some figures for the fiscal year end 2018:
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/where-your-tax-dollar-was-spent-2018/"
The average taxpayer contributed $230 to Lockheed Martin’s Department of Defense contracts, the Pentagon’s biggest contractor and maker of the ill-conceived F-35 jet fighter.
That’s twice as much as the $109 taxpayers contributed to child nutrition programs like school breakfast and lunch.
The average taxpayer contributed $102 for Department of Defense contracts for Boeing – whose former executive Patrick Shanahan is now the acting U.S. Secretary of Defense.
The average taxpayer paid $3,457 for the Pentagon and military, almost nineteen times more than for all diplomacy and foreign aid ($183)."
