Global Military Spending - NEWS ONLY

Mr.T said:
That is kinda apples and oranges as for most of human history only reason taxes were even raised was to spend on military and miltary adjacent ,even if they were building roads or ports the primary function was for war , in past century or so that is not the case anymore .

Expenditure of your taxes on healthcare is magnitudes more useful to your every day life than paying for Raythen's stock buybacks.
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The issue has another angle: when taxes were 90%, people only lived forty years and paid taxes for a shorter time. In addition, they were not as numerous as we are, I think that if we do the calculations well it will show that now governments obtain more benefits in the long term, and that is the reason for the investment in medical care.
 
Mr.T said:
Note the huge summs involved 60mio$ :eek: (one IRIS-T system is about 110mio$ and a single reload is about 40mio$) , second thing is absolute favoritism in regards to choosing French or German products vs any other
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The sum of all of Europe's defense budgets is up to four times that of Russia, perhaps more. Possibly that is one of the main reasons for our current political problems, pre-fabricated problems.
 
Justo Miranda said:
The sum of all of Europe's defense budgets is up to four times that of Russia, perhaps more. Possibly that is one of the main reasons for our current political problems, pre-fabricated problems.
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Straying into Conspiracy Theory territory...
 
Mr.T said:
Note the huge summs involved 60mio$ :eek: (one IRIS-T system is about 110mio$ and a single reload is about 40mio$) , second thing is absolute favoritism in regards to choosing French or German products vs any other
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You are correct "any other"(s) deserve consideration or at least collaboration.
 
Justo Miranda said:
The issue has another angle: when taxes were 90%, people only lived forty years and paid taxes for a shorter time. In addition, they were not as numerous as we are, I think that if we do the calculations well it will show that now governments obtain more benefits in the long term, and that is the reason for the investment in medical care.
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Medieval taxes were in 10% range once and done , now its tax upon tax ,upon tax , you pay tax on the salary then pay again paying for stuff and xzy taxes that are piled up on top ,life span had no consequence on that , as there was no social services and very few 'public employes' aside from military, you paid you retirement by having lots of kids to use for work and support in old age , which is still the case in 3rd world.

Justo Miranda said:
The sum of all of Europe's defense budgets is up to four times that of Russia, perhaps more. Possibly that is one of the main reasons for our current political problems, pre-fabricated problems.
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Nato has for decades spent about 12-17x what Russia spent on defense

Pre Ukraine war it was 15x , even now its at 14x
''In 2021, Russia spent around $66 billion on its military. NATO’s European members alone spent more than four times that. The United States spent more than eleven times that much ($801 billion), though of course it has huge military commitments outside Europe''
 
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