Let us tie military spending to a percentage of tax revenues

[Revanchist]

40. If you want to reduce military spending

Let the military decide what they need to spend money on and not politicians (from both parties) who are more interested in securing projects for their home districts instead of what the military needs.

That and don't punish them for being frugal. I lost track of the number of times we had to buy supplies, test equipment, and just let the jets idle on the runway to burn off jet fuel so they could buy more at the end of the fiscal year. But when you've just come off a deployment and are on a relaxed schedule for a few months while everyone recharges, you don't need as much money. But if you don't spend it they reduce your budget for the next year when your ramping up for deployment or are on deployment and you need the funding. Your punished if you don't spend every last dime or over-spend so you can ask for more to "justify" an increase for the next year.

We have a stupid system that just encourages people to waste funding.