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> Military expenses, for example, can be cut back at any time. Handout programs become a dependence and will never be removed once implemented, no matter how po
by secstate 3y ago
> Military expenses, for example, can be cut back at any time. Handout programs become a dependence and will never be removed once implemented, no matter how poorly they're executed.
Don't embarrass yourself. Military expenses look like they can be cut back, but are functionally impossible to cut back because of how they're gerrymandered.
- brightball 3y agoAnd once people have a dependence on income from a government program or any type, you believe there's any chance of reforming it? All it takes is "candidate X wants to take away your Y" and it's over, so we end up in this endless growing expense cycle that cannot ever be fixed. It's one of the primary reasons that I'd support a basic income policy as long as it was contingent on gutting the other programs so hard that they could be removed or reformed without anybody batting an eye.