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Trump asks for tanks, helicopters at military parade for July 4th
- olliej 7y agoBecause burning tax payer money for a parade is a great use of funds
- londons_explore 7y agoTaxpayers should get to see what their money goes to buy.
- olliej 7y agoBy wasting more money helping some wannabe dictator?
- daly 7y agoAn Abrams M1A2 tank weighs 69.4 tons. I suppose they plan to repave the street later.
- burfog 7y agoI saw one in a parade. It left tread prints, but the road still worked. Even if the road didn't work, repaving isn't that big of a deal. It's a small price to pay for seeing a massive tank roll down the street.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't post garden-variety politics to Hacker News. There needs to be an intellectually interesting angle for such a story to be on topic here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html