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Reality Check: Entitlement Spending Dwarfs Wars Since 2001

_SeekerOfTruth_ Wrote: May 28, 2012 11:46 AM
Entitlements are called entitlements because we are taxed with the promise of a future received good. Make war an entitlement, by Adding to the payroll taxes a foreign intervention and military tax and force congress to budget accordingly.

Some bad news for the vehement anti-war set: they've lost the spending argument. A new chart reveals that in the last decade, spending on national security, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined paled in comparison to entitlement spending -- 19% to 65%, respectively. Over to you, infographic:

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"About 65 percent of federal expenditures over the last ten years have gone towards entitlements,"Paul Miller...

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