Put real numbers to this. We spend well over a trillion dollars on education.

Also recognize the falsity of attributing the entire defense budget to "the war machine". There are policy debates that could take you lower or (like this request) higher, but it's not like an order-of-magnitude thing.

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BugsJustFindMe 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> We spend well over a trillion dollars on education.

And we spend well over a trillion dollars on defense. And yet the straight of hormuz is still closed, just like there are still children who don't have enough food and suffer for it. Comparing the total budget of one thing against a budget delta of another thing is wrong. Compare deltas of each and compare their benefits.

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nickff 10 hours ago | parent [-]

>"And we spend well over a trillion dollars on defense."

That's just not true; the US Military Budget for 2025 was (USD) $768 BB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

	▲	BugsJustFindMe 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It is true. The number you're looking at doesn't include all military spending. For example, it doesn't include the nuclear weapons programs, intelligence programs, veterans affairs, ... https://www.defensebudget.org/en/country/united-states The VA budget alone is over $400B, and the intelligence budget is _classified_.
	▲	idiotsecant 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		So when we consider school spending it's important to count every penny but when we consider military spending we can just neglect vast swathes of spending?
	▲	91bananas 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They're asking for 1.5B right now

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TimorousBestie 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If we’re putting numbers on things, what’s the number you’re putting on “pure, non-war-machine” defense spending?