Excessive Military Spending Analysis

I believe the best theory why the Roman Empire fell is because… ‘The Excessive Military Spending.’ From this little section in the article, it states that. When Rome was at war, defending the borders from the attacks were terrible on them. Most of the spendings were in the military. Which left few resources for other activities, like general education and maintaining the roads. Near the end of the Roman empire, people gave up. So the government had to rely on the mercenaries for their defense. They were taken from unemployed mobs or foreign countries but were they expensive. This lead to increases in taxes, which hurt the economy and mainly the businessmen and the farmers. Either way, it did not help the decline of Rome, which soon will affect