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    on some horrible and inefficient system.

    Boy, do I have news for you about private companies. Turns out government works tend to be more efficient, and less wasteful than private.

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      Turns out it does not. 50% of stolen money (tax revenue) is used to murder people around the world.

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        What companies are making those weapons and arms used in wars? Private companies, paid for with tax dollars.

        Also, only 12% of the US federal budget went to the military in 2022. Social Security, Healthcare, and Welfare were all bigger parts of US federal spending, with medicare just being behind military spending.

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            No, they are capitalist owned. if they were communist the people would own them.

            And that graph is completely inaccurate. here is the budget actual from 2015:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_States_federal_budget#Outlays_by_budget_function

            Notice how military spending is 631 billion out of 3.89 trillion, which is about 16%.

            And the budget from 2022 had an even lower percentage of military spending:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_federal_budget

            Seriously, vet your sources man, that crap you linked to is easily disproven.

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              You are looking at budget definitions, I was looking at what it actually being spent. More communist deception.

              Even if your data is completely right that is still insanely too high, the communist war machine needs to be stopped!

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                No you weren’t, you were linking to a shitty website with false data. You were the one duped by lies and propaganda.

                And yes, the 12% is still too high, the US doesn’t need to spend nearly that much on the military. But they aren’t spending 50+%, that was just a lie, from a shitty website that fooled you.