Overseas base maintenance costs taxpayers over $100 billion annually

Evidence

Even with recent reductions in military spending, the annual cost to taxpayers to maintain bases and troops overseas in coming years could easily reach $100 billion or more given the conservative nature of my calculations and the Pentagon’s use of war budgets to fund nonwar activities. At these levels, if Pentagon spending abroad were its own government agency, it would have a larger discretionary budget than every other federal agency except the Department of Defense itself. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 651

Categorization

• XREF: Ties directly to the reader’s stated purpose of quantifying how military bases harm America economically.