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social security and medicare?
by dnautics 4mo ago
social security and medicare?
- bijowo1676 4mo agoreparations to Iran
- Windchaser 4mo agotbf, it's unclear to me at this point how much of that is going to represent $$ out of the American pocket. A lot of it is "guarantees of financing and investment" by other gulf states. Probably we're subsidizing Iran re-investment, and the costs of that are intentionally ambiguous.
- bijowo1676 4mo agoIf its USD dollars that are going to be spent, its not different than Fed literally printing money out of thin air and sending to Iran. The mere consumption of these dollars will have some effect on global inflation and will strenghten Iran long term
- mym1990 4mo agoThat, interest payments, UFC fight night flyovers, ballrooms, wars, tax cuts. I would go as far as to say that the only things getting reduced funding are education and science research, but that’s just a hunch.
- HerbManic 4mo agoThe massive increases to military spending would be a big part of it. Have to feed the war machine at all costs apparently.
- dnautics 4mo agoall military is ~1/6 of ss and medicare. new military expenditures is a rounding error
- Starman_Jones 4mo agoExtraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. You’re going to need to justify both of those claims. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
- Windchaser 4mo ago[citation needed] Defense (DoD) budget is $900 billion now. When you also account for veterans' health, expenditures on nukes (goes to the DoEnergy), military stuff in space (goes to NASA), border protection, etc., the total national security spending tops $1.5 trillion. That's not counting the interest on past wars. Medicare + SS is about $2.6 trillion. With Medicaid, it's up to $3.3 trillion, but this still gets you nowhere close to "all military is 1/6 of ss and medicare". Even if we are more conservative about how we count "all military" - for instance, include veteran's health and nukes, but not CBP - it still doesn't get us close to the 1/6 number. Would you explain your reasoning and numbers a bit more?
- dnautics 4mo agomedicare, medicaid, ss is > 4 billion and dod is 1 billion, so its more like ~< 1/4. sorry i forgot to mention medicaid, also my bad. i was eyeballing a pie chart.
- Windchaser 4mo agoYeah, but I do think you need to count nukes, veteran's health, space launches for the Air Force, etc, also under "military spending". Better not to ignore them just because they're not properly under DoD.
- dnautics 4mo agoyou listed some rounding errors
- mym1990 4mo agoInterest payments, wars, tax cuts are rounding errors?
- Windchaser 4mo agoguess you also listed some non-rounding-errors