That's something to sit with. Every dollar I give the government, 15 cents goes to coercing people, sometimes by killing innocent people.
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So we spend about 15% of the federal budget on violence and the threat of violence as a means of coercing other people's behavior.
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Like I get it we call it national defense but that's not really what it is.
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or rather "national defense" means coercing other people into behaving in the way we want through violence or the threat of violence.
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And most of the remainder is spent on bribery for votes or 'incentives' for behavior that citizens wouldn't otherwise voluntarily do.
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maybe. You call it a bribery, I call it a concession to the people wrung, after long struggle, from the powerful.
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