Simple profile of a Trump Supporter: Easily succumbs to cult type personalities.
http://www.workingpsychology.com/cult.html
"I will make our military so big, powerful and strong, that no one will mess with us. - Donald Trump -
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/issues/
So, anyone involved in any way with the MIC will probably vote for him.
This:
http://************/hkcoazg [tinyurl] is a pie chart of where our tax dollars go. It shows that 20% goes to defense & 21% goes to social security.
The problem with the chart, is that social security is still solvent & the money comes from SSI taxes, not the general fund. The general fund owes the SSI fund ~2.7 trillion dollars.
So, since SS shouldn't be in the pie chart, when you take it out, defense becomes 25% of all money taken in from taxes for the general fund.
During FY2014, the federal government collected approximately $3.02 trillion in tax revenue, up $246 billion or 9% versus FY2013. Primary receipt categories included individual income taxes ($1,395B or 46% of total receipts),
Social Security/Social Insurance taxes ($1,024B or 34%), and corporate taxes ($321B or 11%). Other revenue types included excise, estate and gift taxes.
Notice that SSI taxes was 73.4% of all individual income taxes in FY2014. The SSI taxes is what keeps this country from bankruptcy, since it still has a surplus. When Clinton claimed to have balanced the budget, it was because the surplus of SSI taxes made up for the deficit in spending. In exchange, the govt. gave us pieces of paper that said "I.O.U." & when the interest is due, gives us another piece of paper that says "I.O.U."
Anyone think those pieces of paper are worth anything?
Anyone wanna' increase our spending on the military from 25% to say 30% of all taxes taken in not related to social security?
Russia has the world's fourth largest defense budget, with Moscow spending $54 billion on the military in 2015. Russian defense spending is finally trending upward, after decades of starvation budgets brought on by the end of the Cold War and a poorly performing economy.
Of the top ten countries that have the largest military expenditures, the U.S. & its allies totals 902.7 billion. China & Russia totals 199.4 billion. Add India & you get 244.6 billion
Japan spends 47.7 billion compared to Russia's est. 70 billion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_expenditures
It has cost the United States $8 trillion to provide military security in the Gulf since 1976. According to Roger Stern, a Princeton economist,
the US has spent as much on Gulf security as it spent on the entire Cold War with the Soviet Union! In recent years through 2010 it has been $400 billion a year, though the US withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 and the gradual withdrawal from Afghanistan this year and next presumably means that the figure is substantially reduced. Still, we have bases in Kuwait, Qatar and elsewhere, and a Naval HQ in Bahrain, none of which is cheap. If it were $200 billion a year, that is a fair chunk of the budget deficit the Republican Party keeps complaining about. And if we could get that $8 trillion back, it would pay down half of the national debt.
http://www.juancole.com/2013/12/chea...-trillion.html
Russia has 10 military bases outside its country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_bases_abroad
China has announced it will open its 1st military base outside its country.
The United States has bases in 31 countries. The U.K. has bases in 18 countries.
The U.S. accounts for 30% of all arms sales in the world. Russia accounts for 23%; Germany 10%; France 8%; U.K. 4%.
All 5 of the above countries are
permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. The 6th permanent member is China.