FROM AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
The AFAC calculates that current military spending and cost of past wars is 37% of the federal budget, but i wonder if they include interest on the public debt. The war resistors league calculates 50% of public expenditures goes for current and past wars.
US Military Budget Vs. Other US Priorities
The peace lobby, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, calculates for Fiscal Year 2012 that the majority of US tax payer’s money goes towards war:
As A Pie Chart
Furthermore, “national defense” category of federal spending is typically just over half of the United States discretionary budget (the money the President/Administration and Congress have direct control over, and must decide and act to spend each year. This is different to mandatory spending, the money that is spent in compliance with existing laws, such as social security benefits, medicare, paying the interest on the national debt and so on).
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