Make that near $28 TRILLION
Total Cost of the War on Poverty
The financial cost of the War on Poverty has been enormous. Between 1965 and 2016, total means-tested welfare spending by federal and state governments cost taxpayers roughly $27.8 trillion in constant FY 2016 dollars. By contrast, the cost to the U.S. government for all military wars from the American Revolution to the present is $8 trillion in FY 2016 dollars.19
Stephen Daggett, Costs of Major U.S. Wars, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, June 29, 2010, https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22926.pdf (accessed February 21, 2018); Amy Belasco, The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11, Congressional Research Service Report for Members and Committees of Congress, December 8, 2014, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf (accessed February 23, 2018). Calculations assume that war-designated expenditures in FY 2016 are the same as in FY 2015 (the most recent fiscal year for which data are provided in the Belasco report).
Make that near $28 TRILLION
Total Cost of the War on Poverty
The financial cost of the War on Poverty has been enormous. Between 1965 and 2016, total means-tested welfare spending by federal and state governments cost taxpayers roughly $27.8 trillion in constant FY 2016 dollars. By contrast, the cost to the U.S. government for all military wars from the American Revolution to the present is $8 trillion in FY 2016 dollars.19
Stephen Daggett, Costs of Major U.S. Wars, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, June 29, 2010, https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22926.pdf (accessed February 21, 2018); Amy Belasco, The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11, Congressional Research Service Report for Members and Committees of Congress, December 8, 2014, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf (accessed February 23, 2018). Calculations assume that war-designated expenditures in FY 2016 are the same as in FY 2015 (the most recent fiscal year for which data are provided in the Belasco report).
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All that money went to white socialists.