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Cutting the military isn't really an option like that. They're the largest employer of people in the country. You'd create mass unemployment of young people to
by lugged 5y ago
Cutting the military isn't really an option like that. They're the largest employer of people in the country.
You'd create mass unemployment of young people to pay out the unemployment of old people.
- rswail 5y agoThis is because the military behemoth is the biggest socialist experiment in job creation of all time. It's not only the actual military members serving and veterans, it's the contractors, the VA and all of the surrounding infrastructure. You (I'm not in the US) should cut your military not to lower taxes, but to increase spending in actually productive areas of the economy. Military spending is not productive, by definition, most of what it spends is buying stuff and people that are supposed to be disposable via war.
- manquer 5y agoAny spending as long it is domestic is productive locally. the stuff the miltary buys needs to be made,the manufacturer in turn buys parts or raw material and employees people and so on etc. There is certainly a case that military spending is not the most effective way to multiply the economic effect that other kinds of spending like infrastructure, education or healthcare, research etc . All of these have huge secondary effects in simulating the economy that military probably does not have .