# Your hard earned tax dollars will be spent at a rate of 1.4 mil per hour.

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**Created:** [June 12, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/your-hard-earned-tax-dollars-will-be-spent-at-a-rate-of-1-4-mil-per-hour/267206 "2013-06-12T20:03:55Z")
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### Author: ![silverandslow1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@silverandslow1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/silverandslow1)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/your-hard-earned-tax-dollars-will-be-spent-at-a-rate-of-1-4-mil-per-hour/267206/45 "2013-06-21T00:19:18Z")

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> [@FS: 94-01 integra exhaust](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-94-01-integra-exhaust/52320/7):
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> Wrong.
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> We can cut our budget in HALF and still spend more than the rest of the world COMBINED
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> ![http://www.rickety.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Defense_Spending_by_Country_2010-570x288.png](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/3/a/3aa4a0f6b09a601e8cfbc1e44a9048891d9a3f79.png)

Wrong.

Since when does a pure dollar figure mean anything? We need to spend more efficiently but that doesn’t change the fact that until that time we still need to upgrade.

The fact that we spend X times more than other countries doesn’t mean our technology is X times more advanced or superior to other countries. We are not twenty years ahead of Russia in military technology. We over spend on everything significantly and spend recklessly which is part of(probably most of) the reason our budget is much higher. I’m sure there is a Russian plane to compete with ours, or there will be and they didn’t or will not spend nearly as much to do the same thing.

I guess I don’t understand the suggestion. We keep our current planes forever and never upgrade?

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