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Comment by duped

1 day ago

> who are by far the largest budgetary expense for the tax payer

not even top 3

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ArchieScrivener  18 hours ago

You are 100% wrong. You listed entitlements. National Defense is half of all discretionary spending.

Homeland Security is less than 1/6th the budget of DoD alone.

rustystump  1 day ago

Let me guess without looking up, debt interest, gov pension, medicare?

  • duped  1 day ago

    Close, DHS, SSA, then Treasury.

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