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HOW THESE FIGURES WERE DETERMINED
"Current military" includes Dept. of Defense ($449 billion), the military portion from other departments ($114 billion), and an unbudgeted estimate of supplemental appropriations ($100 billion). "Past military" represents veterans' benefits plus 80% of the interest on the debt.*

These figures are from an analysis of detailed tables in the "Analytical Perspectives" book of the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2007. The figures are federal funds, which do not include trust funds - such as Social Security - that are raised and spent separately from income taxes. What you pay (or don't pay) by April 17, 2006, goes to the federal funds portion of the budget.

The government practice of combining trust and federal funds began during the Vietnam War, thus making the human needs portion of the budget seem larger and the military portion smaller.

*Analysts differ on how much of the debt stems from the military; other groups estimate 50% to 60%. We use 80% because we believe if there had been no military spending most (if not all) of the national debt would have been eliminated. For further explanation, please go to http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm

The Government Deception

The pie chart below is the government view of the budget. This is a distortion of how our income tax dollars are spent because it includes Trust Funds (e.g., Social Security), and the expenses of past military spending are not distinguished from nonmilitary spending. For a more accurate representation of how your Federal income tax dollar is really spent, see the large chart (above).


Source: New York Times, Feb. 7, 2005, based on
Budget of the United States FY2007.

BUDGETED:
Current Military, $563 billion:
Military Personnel $110 billion
Operation & Maint. $162 billion
Procurement $90 billion
Research & Dev. $72 billion
Construction $8 billion
Family Housing $4 billion
DoD misc. $4 billion
Retired Pay $49 billion
DoE nuclear weapons $17 billion
NASA (50%) $8 billion
International Security $8 billion
Homeland Secur. (military) $27 billion
Exec. Office of President $2 billion
other military (non-DoD) $2 billion

UNBUDGETED: Iraq & Afghanistan Wars
$100 billion (est.):
Most of the spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is not included in the President’s Budget but the Administration will seek supplemental appropriations later this year as it has in the past three years. This is likely an underestimate.

Past Military, $439 billion:
Veterans’ Benefits $76 billion
Interest on national debt $353 billion (80% est. to be created by military spending)

Human Resources, $748 billion:
Health/Human Services
Soc. Sec. Administration
Education Dept.
Food/Nutrition programs
Housing & Urban Dev.
Labor Dept.
other human resources.

General Government, $281 billion:
Interest on debt (20%)
Treasury Government personnel Justice Dept. State Dept.
Homeland Security (17%)
International Affairs
NASA (50%)
Judicial
Legislative
other general govt.

Physical Resources, $131 billion:
Agriculture
Interior
Transportation
Homeland Security (17%)
HUD
Commerce
Energy (non-military)
Environmental Protection
Nat. Science Fdtn.
Army Corps Engineers
Fed. Comm. Commission
other physical resources

Total Outlays (Federal Funds): $2,251 billion