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To: RetiredNow who wrote (547096)	2/1/2010 12:02:13 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1577125

No the chart captures it and more, it overstates the case. Even just considering money China and some other nations have a larger percentage of their spending outside the defense budget. And real spending on defense includes resources used by the military without buying them. That's negligible in the US, the US taxes and spends for its military and only accepts volunteers in to the military paying them enough to get them to join. Other nations draft people and then pay them a wage lower than that which would be required to join up. Their real spending on personel is not the wages, but the wages plus the extra that would have been required for them to volunteer (with that extra amount being put on the backs of the draftee, rather than spread throughout the country with a tax). And a number of poor and/or authoritarian countries also grab non-personnel assets for the military without paying for them or fully paying for them. Considering those factors we aren't close to incurring 50% of the world's military costs.