Issues / Keeping Americans Safe
We should spend at lest 4 percent of GDB on defense.
Reasons to agree
- This kind of investment will make up for critical gaps in the modernization of our equipment, personnel and health care efforts.
- We have typically spent about 4% of GDP on defense.
- 4% is a good amount, given our challenges.
- Most countries spend about 4% of their GDP. Sometimes people try to make a big deal about how we spend more than other countries, but that is just because our economy is so much bigger than most other countries. Indonesia spends a higher percent of GDP, so does China. Saudi Arabia spend about twice as much as we do. We have a lot of land. Our people are spread out over a large distance. Everyone wants to take out the big dog. We are the protectors of the free world from despotic, tyrannical countries that want to rule the world, and are willing to kill others to be in charge... We would like it if other democracies carried their portion of the responsibilities, but because they won't, we have to protect them.
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Our GDP is 13.84 Trillion dollars. 4% of that is 553.6 Billion. The US population is 304,059,724 people. So 553.6 billion dollars per 304 million people is $1,820 per year. That is not too much to for each citizen to pay our government to protect us. That is really the only purpose of government.
Interest of those who agree
- Protecting democracy, freedom of the press, rule of law, and those ideals that would fall to fascism, if America was not protecting this planet.
- Getting money for the military industrial complex.
Interest of those who disagree
- Getting money spent on other things. Trying to get all countries to spend less on defense, and more on education, farming, and stuff.
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