Troop salaries spent abroad leak economic benefit out of the US economy

Evidence

The total costs to the U.S. economy of keeping bases and military forces abroad are even higher. Consider where the (taxpayer-funded) salaries of troops go when they eat or drink at a local restaurant or bar, buy clothing, or rent a home in Germany, Italy, or Japan. These are what economists call “spillover” or “multiplier effects.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 652

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Vietnam and Great Society spending cost America its trade surplus and killed Bretton Woods — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 172