You are quite obviously unfamiliar with how the military-industrial complex works. Republicans do transfer money to the rich. And they do it hand-in-hand with

You are quite obviously unfamiliar with how the military-industrial complex works. Republicans do transfer money to the rich. And they do it hand-in-hand with the Democrats. They will even do it right in front of your face, as they are claiming to be transferring money to the poor. Where, pray tell, do you think all that annual budget actually goes? Most of it isn't ending up in the pockets of the people actually doing the work that the money is ostensibly buying. Military spending is not going into soldier's paychecks. Medicare and Medicaid spending is not going to physicians and nurses. There is an entire ecosystem of middlemen that do little more than subtract the politics and volatility out of the government money and turn it into a reliable cash flow. For this, they keep a fraction. It is every bit as legit as the finance wizards on Wall Street that can turn market chaos into investment-grade securities by mathematically separating risks from returns, and the people doing it with gummint dosh can get just as rich. It is entirely due to the semi-privatization of government services. Rich people grow richer by operating a privately-owned business that serves only one customer, who frequently asks them to name their own price, and then doesn't bother to haggle or shop around. For every young genius that strikes the jackpot with a unicorn startup, there are hundreds of banal and unremarkable suit-fillers reaping mere millions just from knowing a guy that knows a guy with an inside line on appropriations, and from having enough money to credibly submit a contract proposal.