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The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex

Machiavelli999,
SocSec,Medicare,Medica... are not discretionary government expenditures: they are already paid for by dedicated tax.

On the contrary, military spending is discretionary and along with other discretionary spending sucks about 500bn per annum in taxes which were collected for the sole purpose of paying future pension benefits.
You are finding it normal that the gov't taxes you with SocSec tax and then spends half of it waging pointless wars?

How will you (and everyone else) react to a new payroll tax of 3% called Misc War Miscarriages?

The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex

And the point of the author I would speculate is not as much on whether there should be military spending or not as much as it revolves around no-bid contracts, $110 vehicle park plugs, $100 per gallon refills for Humvees(4 mpg) etc.

The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex

'There is no country on earth that can challenge the U.S. militarily.'
Only by spending though. You see what the troops are capable of in Iraq: 4 years after the declared victory they are still there trying to finish things up.