Military spending makes up two-thirds of the US federal budget, and it could soon become three-quarters of the budget. The $1trillion US military budget today is bigger than the next seven largest military budgets of other countries combined. An estimated one-fourth of the US military budget would eliminate poverty in the US, and to eliminate poverty worldwide would cost only about 10 percent of world military spending. — The Editors
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