FGD135
October 18, 2017, 6:15pm
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You wouldn’t even have to raise taxes. I did some (admittedly back of the envelope) calculations in a thread maybe three weeks ago - 10% of the current military budget would be enough.
Edit: found it.
Okay, let’s do some back-of-an-envelope math for a ballpark number:
2009 Kingsepp study: $3.61 a week. Let’s round that up to $4/week.
That’s 4 x 52 = $208/year.
I’m not quite clear whether that is per capita in total or per “taxpayer”, however you define that. So let’s say per capita. According to https://www.census.gov , on 2017-07-04, the USA had a population of 325,365,189.
325,365,189 x 208 = $67,675,959,312/year.
FY2018 budget request for military spending1) $639,000,000,000.
1) The …
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