• @protist@mander.xyz
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    81 year ago

    I have to disagree here, because the US can easily afford everything listed here in addition to the fighter jet. The fighter jet isn’t responsible for a lack of spending in all these programs, it’s the Republican Party, which doesn’t want to see one cent of tax money go toward helping a poor person

    • @thatgirlwasfire
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      31 year ago

      While i am not for the MIC,Ii also disagree that the US can easily afford it. The government has been running an ever increasing deficit because they can’t afford it.

      • @abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works
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        21 year ago

        Those deficits are largely due to (GOP) massively cutting taxes for the wealthy (but remember how some of us got back a few crumbs? Muh taxes!) so now the government is underfunding everything except the military. Freedom!

        • @thatgirlwasfire
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          11 year ago

          Yeah to bad the “fiscally responsible “ party ruined the governments surplus by cutting taxes, and fighting “terrorists”.