The US military sucks about $1T a year, but twice that is spent on the most expensive healthcare system in the world.
Also, Boomers are sucking more out of social security, and healthcare than they ever paid in.
All could be paid for if they stopped taxing “income” and started taxing net worth. But that would mean taxing boomers, which is not allowed. If they stopped income tax the economy would boom with trillions in spending, not hoarding.
The military budget isn’t even the whole story because it doesn’t include the hundreds of billions that go to DHS and the hundreds of billions that’s go to veterans affairs which only exists because of the military budget
Veterans affairs is almost entirely paying benefits that people earned working for the military, cutting that isn’t really an option. DHS could absolutely be downsized from being Trump’s secret police
The US military sucks about $1T a year, but twice that is spent on the most expensive healthcare system in the world. Also, Boomers are sucking more out of social security, and healthcare than they ever paid in.
All could be paid for if they stopped taxing “income” and started taxing net worth. But that would mean taxing boomers, which is not allowed. If they stopped income tax the economy would boom with trillions in spending, not hoarding.
The military budget isn’t even the whole story because it doesn’t include the hundreds of billions that go to DHS and the hundreds of billions that’s go to veterans affairs which only exists because of the military budget
Veterans affairs is almost entirely paying benefits that people earned working for the military, cutting that isn’t really an option. DHS could absolutely be downsized from being Trump’s secret police
Reduce military from 2.1m to under 500k
Audit veterans disability for fraud
The amount of people who are 100% disabled while living and working entirely normal lives says something is wrong with the system
Veterans affairs will be able to be cut within a few years