Trillions of dollars per year? The entire US Defense Budget for 2016 was $600B while the entire budget was $3.8T.[1] Further, many large scale tech advancement

Trillions of dollars per year? The entire US Defense Budget for 2016 was $600B while the entire budget was $3.8T.[1] Further, many large scale tech advancements have come from military R&D, originally with the goal of blowing people up, preventing them from getting blown up, or making them recover after the fact. Everything from the Internet to GPS to microwave to many synthetic fabrics to emergency medicine. I agree that investing in things that don't kill people is great and should be encouraged. It's just outside the scope of government. 1 - https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/ https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spendi...