[ExI] Strong libertarianism, societal good, & suffering (was: Cephalization, proles)

[Kelly Anderson]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Damien Sullivan
<phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 01:26:09PM -0600, Kelly Anderson wrote:
>> Ok, except that only ~0.001%(a made up number) of their taxes go to
>> basic research while ~55% (another made up number) go to social
>
> Why use made-up numbers?  A quick look around shows abotu 2% of federal
> spending going to research.  Welfare's harder to tease apart, but maybe
> 5% by one analysis, though that might have included state/local spending
> too.

I was including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in my
definition of what made up the 55%. It may be higher than that.

If 2% of Federal spending is going to research, I would imagine that a
LOT of that must be in the military budget.

-Kelly