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If you want to balance personal liberties with reducing government spending, why not implement a large(r) federal tax on cigarettes which is refunded at tax tim
by cddotdotslash 3y ago
If you want to balance personal liberties with reducing government spending, why not implement a large(r) federal tax on cigarettes which is refunded at tax time if you’re not a Medicaid recipient?
- Clubber 3y agoMaybe we should stop building so many missiles.
- valval 3y agoSo you have any idea how small the defense budget is compared to social programs (let alone their sum) like the ones discussed in this thread? The numbers are all public, just look them up. The US doesn’t spend a particularly interesting percentage of their GDP on defense budget at a global scale.
- Clubber 3y ago>So you have any idea how small the defense budget is compared to social programs (let alone their sum) like the ones discussed in this thread? The numbers are all public, just look them up. Yes I do, it's comparable to SS and Medicaid/Medicare. Before WWI and WWII, we hardly carried a standing military. >The US doesn’t spend a particularly interesting percentage of their GDP on defense budget at a global scale. That's true but you aren't mentioning total spend. The total spend numbers paint a different picture. How much military spending at the expense of domestic wellness do we need? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...