There goes 12 hours worth of the defense budget.
$283 for top 1% highest-earners
$21 for remaining top 10% highest-earners
$4 for remaining top 50% highest-earners
¢38 for bottom 50% lowest-earners
If this cost was covered by income taxes.
Source: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-federal-income-tax-data-20...
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to imply anything here, I was just curious about the average cost to tax payer and then tried to get a more accurate picture.
In FY 2017, the Congressional Budget Office reported spending of $590 billion for defense, about 15% of the federal budget.[1] For the FY 2019 president Donald Trump proposed an increase to the military to $681.1 billion. [2]
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
I assume you are being downvoted for failing to actually include your footnotes.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=avi...
From the article: “We anticipate the aircraft parked inside may be damaged as well, but we won't know the extent until our crews can safely enter those hangars and make an assessment,” the spokeswoman said.
Anecdotally, a former life once allowed me the privilege of directing flightline ops during several hurricane evacuations. This isn't anything new to me, and I've seen far worse than what this article (and others) have depicted--to include an entire squadron of F-15s engulfed in storm surge saltwater flooding up to their cockpits during Wilma, none of which resulted in airframe loss.