The Pros And Cons Of Military Spending

The United States of America’s military expenditure is the largest in the world. Billions of US tax dollars are being spent on the military each year. Other sectors of the US federal budget, such as education, welfare, and the environment, are the areas being cut to try and attempt to balance the budget. Spending tax dollars on the military overseas should be lessened because the tax money spent abroad could go to more essential areas of the budget, the money could stay in the hands of the people making that money, and our priorities should be something else other than paying for wars. Over the years, the United States military has grown profoundly, with its beginning in colonial America as a small militia, to the largest in the world today. Defense spending has been up and down, with less than 1 percent of GDP in 1929, all the way up to 43 percent in 1944. After WWII, in 1952, the budget was at a high at 15 percent, and then it had decreased down to a low of 3.7 percent just before the September 11th terrorist attacks; an increase then again came (Walker). This shows that the allocation of taxes can differ

The United States should scale back on military spending. The United States spends the most on the military than any other nation. However, there is a significant difference between the defense budget and the military budget. The government should be focused on the actual defense of the United States, rather than its implementation of military bases around the world and engaging in conflicts of other nations. The United States should not cut actual defense spending here at home because to say that we do not have any enemies is thoughtless. The government should send troops that are stationed in other nations back home. We should not intervene in other nations’ conflicts. The United States should not create coup d'etats and install puppet dictators around the world, trying to spread