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"money has to come from somewhere" is not a bad thing. Not all the money is reasonably allocated with equivalent side-effects. For example, it could come from
by optymizer 7y ago
"money has to come from somewhere" is not a bad thing. Not all the money is reasonably allocated with equivalent side-effects.
For example, it could come from the $748 billion dollars that are allocated for the military budget, which would take away $327 billion and still leave the US as the country spending the most money on the military.
Maybe that means we stop wars that break windows in other countries for a year to focus on healthcare issues, and maybe even, down the line, we find money to improve education for the future generations.
- abfan1127 7y agono argument here! However, our government hasn't show its ability to "spend within its limits"...
- runawaybottle 7y agoWe should totally dip into the Pentagon budget for this year, this seems like a no brainer.
- isoskeles 7y agoWe spend more on Social Security and Medicare+Medicaid. Not that we want to use the money from either over Defense, but the notion that we spend more on the military is a myth.
- pwinnski 7y agoMoney given to people benefits people. Money given to the military benefits fewer people per dollar spent, and silly percentages of that military money is wasted and lost. Every dollar you take from SS/Medic* impacts a person. You could cut the military budget by a large chunk before you'd have to actually impact a person.