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jezclaremurugan
on April 18, 2017
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Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about governm...
Why can't military spends be in one classified bucket and the rest be open and 100% transparent? I don't think information on how much is spent on roads, healthcare, police, education will affect security.
thomastjeffery
on April 18, 2017
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Because that's 550
billion
dollars. A
very
significant portion of that
does not
need to be secret.
walljm
on April 18, 2017
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And a lot of it isn't.
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/rpt/mthTreasStmt/b...
breaks out how military spending is allocated to some level of detail.
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