Also, if you think these priorities are out of whack (which I do!) you should start grappling with how and why our spending looks like this.
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Also, if you think these priorities are out of whack (which I do!) you should start grappling with how and why our spending looks like this. Source: https://t.co/xJ6RXScUT0 https://t.co/vlCP1sSZHT
Ancien régime Europe certainly spent heavily on its armies and navies, and their use in war accounted for some 54 per cent of public spending in the European monarchies during the eighteenth century.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Government consumption spending, education spending, and health care spending overlap to some extent, but in total, without double counting, they still exceed 25 percent of U.S. GDP.