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Reclaim any of the 51+% of our federal budget on weapons we either don't ever shoot or leave in the desert, use the reclaimed former tax revenue to maintain se

Reclaim any of the 51+% of our federal budget on weapons we either don't ever shoot or leave in the desert, use the reclaimed former tax revenue to maintain separate apartments longer, even if just a bedroom one rents.

grapist420 5y ago
military spending is 51% of discretionary spending. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ6wwEzN6y62UA9KIzATgXKFu5t7FraQlbH0A&s https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ6wwEz... Not 51% of government spending, which is much much larger
- atatatat 5y ago
  How many trillions per decade is that?
  - grapist420 5y ago
    cool but it’s not the half of the federal budget you suggested
    - cycomanic 5y ago
      That's splitting hairs though isn't it?
      - smsm42 5y ago
        No, 10% and 51% is a pretty substantial and material difference. Lying for the right cause is still lying.
hash872 5y ago
The US spends under 10% of its federal budget on the military. In 2020 it spent more just on healthcare for the elderly than the entire military budget. Here, please take a look at the numbers straight from the CBO! https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57170 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57170 As for your second sentence- the total value of the US real estate market is about $56 trillion, so I kind of doubt that the government is going to make much of a dent here. There's not a lot of places where you can say even the US government doesn't have enough money, but....