Charticle: Defense spending vs entitlement spending

Published July 7, 2011 4:00am ET



A constant claim among liberals is that government spends more on defense than anything else in the federal budget. The reality is that even after paying for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, Washington spends twice as much on entitlement programs than on defense.

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