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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by marricks on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:23PM (#19823149)
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...

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:05PM (#19829378)
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...
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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by fiestaman on Sunday May 05, 2019 @05:38PM (#19835245)
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.

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by marricks on Sunday May 05, 2019 @08:58PM (#19836087)
Huh you’re right about that. For some reason your heritage chart makes it look a lot more reasonable, which I don’t agree that it is. I’m guessing it has something to with comparing to GDP?
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