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If you live in the US about 1/3 of your taxes go to making sure we have the means to break things and kill people. It's been that way for a long long time. Whether that is good or bad is a whole different discussion, but throughout history having the biggest stick has proved to be beneficial at least for awhile.

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1/3 is a wildly inaccurate number that only comes close to holding true if you don't include our non-obligatory spending which is massive.

Its varied from year to year. I cant keep track what goes to medicaid (and as the baby boomers continue to age it will shift as time moves forward) and want not over the year, Id say the low estimate is 20% of your taxes (and the number are different when you look at mandatory vs discretionary spending) and the high is 36% either way its a lot of money.

11.6% in 2017 https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/breakdown_2017USrt_19rs...

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