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- The ugly story of how corporate America convinced us to spend so much on water https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23433132/best-bottled-water-is-tap-environment-health 94 comments
- How Much Does America Spend? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/briefing/us-federal-government-spending-doge.html 6 comments politics
- How much America has left to spend before default, by the second. http://howmuchmoneydowehave.com/ 4 comments politics
- Spending on information technology much higher in America, than in Europe https://www.eito.com/webroot/store15/shops/63182014/mediagallery/press/2017/170113_ict_spendings_2016.jpg 11 comments europe
- Bernie Sanders is right—America spends too much money on its military http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-defense-spending/ 172 comments politics
- Perhaps it's not that America spends too much on health care, but that other nations don't spend enough. http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052748704130904574644230678102274.html?mod=rss_today%27s_most_popular 6 comments business
- Saudi Arabia is America's top weapons buyer – but it doesn't spend as much as Trump boasts https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/saudi-arabia-top-us-weapons-buyer-but-doesnt-spend-as-much-as-trump-boasts.html 5 comments politics
- America now spends about as much on defense as every other country on the planet ... combined. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_06/024056.php 13 comments politics
- America Spends Nearly $720,000,000,000.00 On the "Defense" Budget. Is There Information on How Much of This is Used Attacking Other Countries to Defend Their Oil? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_or_zpib3k5o/s8ylhia6awi/aaaaaaaabn8/gqf-d3lr0xo/s1600/us_vs_world.gif 3 comments politics
- America's defense spending is bigger than that of the next 17 countries combined (and the % of GDP is much greater than almost every country except Saudi Arabia). [chart] http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/military-spending 12 comments worldnews
- Mr Romney wants a much smaller government (except when it comes to throwing America’s weight around overseas, where he wants to boost military spending from 3.4% of GDP to a target of 4%) http://www.economist.com/node/21563950?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/thechoice 3 comments politics
- If America is broke, why did Republicans in Congress increase defense spending by $17 billion to a total of $649 billion? We already spend more than the 16 next closest countries combined, and it is 6 times as much as the nearest country China. http://www.politicususa.com/en/cut-defense 171 comments politics
- Bank of America infographic on Average Family spending, >$4k for 25-34 year-olds, really? I don't think the average 25-34 year-old makes enough to spend that much, but I guess if you factor in loans/credit that may make sense. https://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/manage/average-family-budget.go?cm_sp=ebz-financialeducation-_-fined-_-eff1ch0s_hm_america-e-armv8qdg_s.gif 52 comments financialindependence
- The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 will help restore much of the lost value of the federal minimum wage, providing America’s lowest-paid workers with an urgently needed raise while boosting the consumer spending that fuels our economy. http://www.raisetheminimumwage.com/pages/fair-minimum-wage-act-of-2013 182 comments politics
- "The United States of America ends up spending almost twice as much per person on healthcare, and yet our end results, our healthcare outcomes, are not particularly good compared to many other counties around the world." - Sen. Sanders (I-VT) http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Blist=UUD_DaKNac0Ta-2PeHuoQ1uA&v=peWrM3_EsDg 1164 comments politics
- Former Reagan Adviser On GOP'S Pledge To America: there would be no money for national parks, roads education, infrastructure spending, homeland security, medicare, medicaid and it won't save all that much. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=130126335 13 comments reddit.com
- Former Reagan Adviser On GOP'S Pledge To America: there would be no money for national parks, roads education, infrastructure spending, homeland security, medicare, medicaid and it won't save all that much. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=130126335 19 comments politics
