“Imagine in Iran that instead of spending their wealth – billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, [they] had spent that money helping the people of Iran. You’d have a much different country.” –Secretary of State Marco Rubio

” It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. . . . We have to take care of one thing: military protection.” –President Donald Trump

US military spending eats up nearly half of all discretionary spending (see below figure). Instead of........

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