Well, they leave out war costs for one simple thing. And as detailed at the link, much of what doesn't get counted as military spending would be considered military spending by many rational agents.
Except they don't. They, uh, can't.
Look the data is right there at the link. It's admittedly a very partisan source, I was just trying to show that much of what is counted as military spending is a bit of a judgement call and that simply throwing out "22%" may leave out a lot of things that the typical person would assume was being included.
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Re: did someone say "pie charts"??!!!
Date: 28/2/11 22:08 (UTC)Look the data is right there at the link. It's admittedly a very partisan source, I was just trying to show that much of what is counted as military spending is a bit of a judgement call and that simply throwing out "22%" may leave out a lot of things that the typical person would assume was being included.