Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
by gjm11 on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:49PM
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There were substantial decreases in 2012 and 2013; I think the military budget has increased in every other recent year (though maybe sometimes by less than inflation?). 2019 is indeed down on 2008. (But not 2007, or any earlier year: there were big increases in 2006, 2007, 2008.)
Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
by marricks on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:23PM
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The Heritage foundation sure knows how to frame things! Overall the military budget has increased steeply since the 90s
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defense_spending.p...
Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:05PM
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You could say the same thing about you only posting the constant dollars graph, instead of also including a percentage of GDP chart, which is in many senses a better assessment of federal spending: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Defense_Spending_as_a_P...
Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
by fiestaman on Sunday May 05, 2019 @05:38PM
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Your graph shows spending in constant 2009 dollars, just as mine shows spending in constant 2015 dollars, so your comment makes no sense.
They are literally presenting the same information, just pegging inflation to different years.
My point is, fighting “zealotry” is just a nice way of saying let’s make it easier for corporate centrism.