The U.S. military budge pays the salaries, training, and health care of uniformed and civilian personnel, maintains arms, equipment and facilities, funds operations, and develops and buys new items. The 2023 U.S. military budget is $773 billion, an increase of 4% over 2022’s budget. The budget includes $177.5 billion for the Army, $194 billion for the Air Force and Space Force and $230.8 billion for the Navy and Marine Corps. Other country’s 2021 military budgets were China $293 billion, United Kingdom $68.4 billion and Russia $66 billion.
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Go back to trump spending
Pay soldiers a higher wage. Give more compensation once they have completed 4 years of service. Spend less money on experience and unused machinery and technology.
Decrease, the military industrial complex and intelligence apparatus should be completely dismantled.
Decrease, and end all financial support for all military industrial complex projects as well as the intelligence community.
should be limited with spending should be ran thru the house for bill paying
Yes, but we need to excersize eminent domain over the corporations of the mulitary industrial complex, then sell those corporations to their employees so that they become industrial co-operatives.
The U.S. Federal Government needs a proper budget for all branches of government, with a reasonable sum invested in keeping our military strong.
We should eliminate waste in the military budget but allow for budgetary flexibility
Increase spending for necessary improvements
Depending if we need it or not.
spend it on usefull stuff instead of gay pride parades
If we decrease now, we'll be overtaken by China. Until the existential threat that is China is dealt with, we cannot afford to allow them to gain strength while we falter.
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