So let's do nothing at all.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
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I read it as suggesting we should do more, not less.
How dare you! They made a meme.
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Yeah, that sucks. I'd rather start somewhere than just throw my hands up and go "well, it's fucked, may as well not try."
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this is what a whiney ass Russian says about life.. this is how a coward thinks.. this is what defeat looks like from inside the mind of the loser..
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Please give up.
You have been banned from hexhear for unrelated reasons
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This is why we tax and eat them.
Now this is a policy I can get behind.
All military spending comprises ~10-15% of the budget, just a FYI.
The military budget isn’t stopping anything. In 2022, $4.1 Trillion was spent on mandatory programs (social security, Medicare, Medicaid, income security).
Social security, Medicare, and Medicaid alone were just shy of $3 Trillion.
It's still a rediculously large military budget and it's incredible how much we spend on our social programs only for them to still suck ass
Fixing our social programs would go so far to make things better without even changing anything else at all.
The amount of money spent isn’t the issue, it’s how inefficiently it’s spent.
Agreed!
I think that was part of my thinking with my hot take.
I'm all for the rich paying their fair share, but maximizing what we already have is important too.
Admittedly, I thought these percentages were different.
Not above admitting when I'm wrong.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-explainer-national-defense
No worries.
A part of that is that there’s the entire budget of all federal outlays and then “the budget” which is what the President requests and Congress authorizes.
That is solely the discretionary spending. It’s unfortunate that it’s the only thing that actually gets talked about in the media.
Related, but interest on the debt is set to pass military spending like next year even.
if the military industrial complex gets rich then they are also taxed
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Fact: despite popular perception and rhetoric, the government does not actually need to issue taxes pay for things. Taxing the rich does not actually act as a source of revenue; it disincentivizes greater Extremes of price gouging and wage suppression as well as reducing the wealth disparity between the the poor and wealthy.
Your objection is nonsensical, misleading, and damaging to the cause. Good job. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
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Yeah but it ends up in our hands for a few minutes and that's the point
Not true and even if true I'm ok with it, I love lockmart, nuke the Kremlin.
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If rather have a military armed to the teeth than the super rich getting even richer.
US military is already larger than the 4 next largest militaries worldwide IIRC, so no need to worry about being a paper tiger
Are you suggesting we must choose between monarchy and fascism?
You can have a well armed military without being fascist?
as opposed to the rich people doing military donations on their own? the spotify ceo invested in fucking AI military killing machines man grow up. you have no control over rich people and they have demonstrated that there is no reason to trust them. the government sucks too, but at least you get to cast a vote on how much it sucks. stop bootlicking
I'm all for taxing the rich, but I'm even more for rooting out the corruption that enables the rich to become the monsters they are. This isn't bootlicking, its holding the opinion that the priorities are out of order.
Thanks for sharing your perspective.
Taxing the rich means their money will go straight to government. Just have corporations pay workers more, so it goes straight to the people. Taking the rich is a stupid fucking movement, people should be emphasizing paying the workers more
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