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After the tax cuts for the rich there's no money left for this. And who did those cuts? The previous president.
Not just the former guy. Trump, Bush, Reagan all gutted tax revenue by repeatedly handing tax breaks to the wealthy who neither needed nor deserved them.
There's plenty of money in the Pentagon budget. We don't need to increase taxes on anyone to pay for social programs. We need to stop spending it on crimes against humanity.
Por que no los dos?
EU did that and saved on military spending. Now they have a Russia infestation. Just fully cutting the military budget is impossible.
Also the use of military force is tied to the economic system. You can't change one without the other.
EU was able to do that because they know the US will jump in if there's trouble. We're funding European defense while they fund social programs and act smug about it on the internet.
The US has thousands of nukes, oceans to the east and west, and allies to the north and south. We do not need this much military spending to defend ourselves.
The military is not for protecting themselves but for protecting trade and markets. That was also the deal with Europe: USA protect you and you buy our stuff with our currency. It's what you see with the Houthis in Yemen. Nobody cares they kill some people, but they're disturbing trade routes so action must be taken.
I bet we could somehow manage to do that with 6 carrier battle groups instead of fucking 11
This is not what the commenter said, you can remove some of a budget without fully cutting.
the idea 'theres no money left' is fiction. a fantasy. theres always money left because we (the country) live in debt.
they never Not increase the military budget because 'were out of funds'. they also never decrease it despite the fact we dont really need 50% of it.
There's always more money but the more you make the less worth it becomes what gives other major issues. There are enough countries that tried this and failed.
But yeah, the defence industry is a self serving industry and slashing budget hurts hardware providers which are also wealthy campaign donation contributors so nothing happens.