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> The US military should be disarmed and turned into a purely domestically-defensive force. How would US specifically benefit from this?
by jonnybgood 5y ago
> The US military should be disarmed and turned into a purely domestically-defensive force.
How would US specifically benefit from this?
- ahelwer 5y agoThere are a few ways: (1) Many people living in the US (myself included) would feel much relieved at their tax dollars not going toward bombing teenagers, weddings, or whatever other Enemy Combatants were yesterday identified with a High Degree of Certainty (2) The money currently flowing toward said bombing could be repurposed toward general domestic social good, for example in housing, healthcare, or education (3) Hard to overstate the whole "not continually murdering people on an industrial scale" thing but many people in the US are general humanists and would probably appreciate it
- myrandomcomment 5y agoThe ability of the US to pay for all of this is a function of our ability to be the strongest kid on the block both economically and military. Your supposed return value of money would go up in a puff of smoke if the US did what you suggested. The dollars place as a reserve currency is key and moving away from that as you suggest would leave zero for the programs you suggest as the economy would collapse. I am not making a judgement on the value of greater investment in social wellbeing, which I generally support, however I am pointing out that our ability to do this is strongly linked to our place in the world order and can’t be so simply disconnected. Your moral outrage, correct or not, does not change the economy reality.