Also, charity doesn’t have a mandatory 30-45% cutout for defense spending that’s essentially a wealth transfer from the citizenry to Northrop Grumman, so maybe hesitate just a moment or two before singing the praises of taxation
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Interesting. I think that’s where we disagree. I’d prefer a democratic government allocating defense dollars, even with the current issues (and I agree there are lots), over anyone with enough money having their own private army.
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I just said private spending, not change the laws to allow anyone to actually field an army. This discussion has to happen next time we hang though haha twitter is too short
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I basically disagree with the premise that if the US defense budget was cut to 5% of the current budget (just enough to safely maintain our nukes) we'd get invaded tomorrow or ever.
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Modern global markets seem to be the biggest deterrent against superpower wars (which is a decent argument against economic blockades now that I think of it). Could any country's economy survive waging one? Seems unlikely.
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