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It's funny how these liberals just ignore the cost of social spending and talk about how much the military budget is. It's just so transparently intellectually dishonest. The social spending that they support far outstrips the cost of the military, and yet they think they can get away with appearing financially responsible by pointing to the cost of the military. It's so pathetic that it's humorous.
The federal spending on health care, education and welfare together suck up 44% of the federal budget, defense took up just 22%
The VAST majority of federal spending comes down to three things:
Medicare
Social Security
The Military
Anything else you want to talk about is chicken-feed by comparison.
Military is only about 20% even though it is arguably the first priority of the federation. Social spending makes up most if the other 80%. Interest is about 7%.
The taxing is a bit on par, but we have historic levels of deficit spending. Deficits are just another tax increase, we taxpayers will be forced to repay them, with interest. So why not add the deficits to those tax rates and redo your math.
So can we also remove the cost of the wars and redo my math?
It's funny how conservative ignore the military budget and talk about the cost of social spending.
By the way, why should the military take a majority of the budget?
Because it is the only thing explicitly called for in the CONSTITUTION. Everything else is debatable at best. Conservatives don't ignore the military budget , clearly there is fraud and waste that needs to be addressed.
It's funny how conservative ignore the military budget and talk about the cost of social spending.
By the way, why should the military take a majority of the budget?
I'm pretty damn Conservative and I don't ignore it.
I see a big difference in the very small amount we spend on defense and the vast amount spent on Offense.
The federal spending on health care, education and welfare together suck up 44% of the federal budget, defense took up just 22%
Oh my GAWD, we actually spend 44% of our tax dollars ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Oh the horror.
In a perfect world, we would be spending 100% of our tax dollars ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (who else is more worthy than US?).
Sadly, foreign tyrants make that impossible.
Because it is the only thing explicitly called for in the CONSTITUTION. Everything else is debatable at best. Conservatives don't ignore the military budget , clearly there is fraud and waste that needs to be addressed.
Apparently the U.S. Supreme Court disagrees with your assessment. It's had decades to throw such spending out and has not come close to doing so.
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...."
Aside from the "promote the general welfare" part, ensuring that the poor are not utterly destitute is part of insuring "domestic tranquility". If you disagree with that assessment I suggest you google "Marie Antoinette". Any nation which ignores it's poor does so at it's own peril. Even the ROMANS understood that.
Ken
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