• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Why would being ten times larger than the next ten militaries in the world combined instead of the next twenty make us likely to be attacked?

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      1 year ago

      Because then you would say why 10 and not 5 and so on. The social spending currently is still much much bigger than the money spent for social services anyway (4.1 trillion + 910 billion in non defense spending which covers mentioned education housing etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget

      Cutting military spending won’t increase social spending. The GOP is for cutting spending no matter what do they can cut taxes from corporations which what they did with latest tax bill.

      Look at corporate income taxes, that should be increased.

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        1 year ago

        I’m really amazed that people on Lemmy are actually cheering for massive, bloated military budgets.

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          1 year ago

          Oh so after showing how ridiculous your post is and defense budget is a drop in what already is being spent on social programs now you are changing goal posts?

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            1 year ago

            This post has always been about bloated defense budgets and all I have been talking about is bloated defense budgets. I didn’t move any goal posts. That is a lie.