Why should the U. S taxpayer have to pay to protect Germans from Russia?

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33person · 26-30, M

Why should we have to pay to drop a bomb every 15 minutes around the world? We spend so much more in that. Each taxpayer only pays maybe $3 a year at most on NATO

ianR0ckwell · M

@33person where did you find that statistic?

33person · 26-30, M

@ianR0ckwell Some mental math.
With common costs of about $2.5 billion in 2017, the U.S. share of about $550 million doesn’t change the picture, since Europe’s share was a much larger $1.8 billion. That gap only weakens Trump’s argument.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/12/donald-trump/donald-trump-misleads-us-defense-spending-nato-bud/