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> We could already build Eden on earth if it weren't for wars. Not true. National defense is about 13% of our federal budget. Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare, a
by rpdillon 2y ago
> We could already build Eden on earth if it weren't for wars.
Not true. National defense is about 13% of our federal budget. Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare, and Social Security are 50%.
https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/where-does-all-the-money-go/ https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/where-does-all-the-m...
The 1% earn 26% of all income, but pay 46% of all income taxes. The bottom 50% of earners pay 2% of income taxes.
https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/do-the-rich-pay-their-fair-share/ https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/do-the-rich-pay-thei...
But our system has a serious problem. We've increased the debt by $11 trillion in the past four years, which was our total debt for the first 200 years the country was around.
The only point here is the problem is significantly harder than you're making it sound, and that's if we had a straightforward way to just stop all the wars. Unfortunately, no one's been able to come up with a way to do this yet.
- nullorempty 2y agoBecause the goal is to have and endless war. Think about that. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_IGU_7alJ80 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_IGU_7alJ80