The United States spends monstrous amounts of money on its military each year. The FY2019 National Defense Budget reached a staggering $716 billion and the FY2020 military budget will end up costing taxpayers between $738 – $750 billion. No country in the world comes even close to dedicating its finite resources to the military. In fact, the U.S. spends more on defense than the combined spending of the next seven countries with the highest defense budgets. Yet, presidential candidates have given relatively little attention to this imbalance.
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