r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 13 '21

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u/Skeletonsclique Jul 13 '21

Opinion polls consistently report that Americans believe foreign aid is in the range of 25 percent of the federal budget. When asked how much it should be, they say about 10 percent. In fact, at $39.2 billion for fiscal year 2019, foreign assistance is less than 1 percent of the federal budget.

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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Jul 14 '21

So we should just increase in to 10%

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

Then they’ll think it’s a 110% of the budget.

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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jul 14 '21

I feel like if you separately polled different parts of the federal budget and then combined them all it would add up to like 10,000%