Agree. Not saying we should get rid of the military, just questioning whether all $600 billion of that spending is really where we should be spending it. I don

Agree. Not saying we should get rid of the military, just questioning whether all $600 billion of that spending is really where we should be spending it. I don't have any particular criticisms of Section 8, but it's an inefficient bandaid for a much bigger problem. It only accommodates about 5m households (while adding to socioeconomic segregation). For everyone else, it doesn't do anything. Why not fix the root of the problem by doing what we do with every other market, and let the free market determine housing prices. Not sure I understand your point about subsidizing the lottery. I think we should either get rid of it, or at least turn it over to private businesses and heavily regulate it. At the moment, it's a predatory state-sponsored monopoly. In any case, not trying to say that these are the solutions, only that the criticism of government policies like these are largely left out of the inequality debate.