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Originally Posted by BenG
These are state and local taxes, so I doubt there's very much spent on foreign policy.
And that $3 billion is divided between 50 states and even more local governments. (BTW aren't "billion" and "trillion" used differently in the UK?)
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I'm not sure about current usage, but I think "billion" and "trillion" were US inventions. I've always heard them referred to as "thousand million" and "million million" respectively on British TV.