(January 7, 2024 at 6:17 pm)neil Wrote:(January 7, 2024 at 8:37 am)Belacqua Wrote: We could start requiring corporations to pay taxes. Or take a fraction of the Pentagon's budget.
The US has enough money.
But I admit it's a utopian scheme. There's no way that, realistically, we can expect Washington to reorient itself away from war towards a secure peace.
Yup!
The US government has given away so much money, that belongs to US taxpayers, to other countries - recently more than $75 billion to Ukraine, $14.5 billion to Israel, and $345 million to Taiwan. Over time, the US has given away hundreds of billions of dollars of US taxpayer money.
Maybe the US government ought to stop giving away money to other countries, at least until it solves problems at home such as poverty, homelessness, etc.
We ought to also bring home overseas troops and use money being spent on that for domestic issues instead. How much of our military spending is for being the world police - protecting overseas industrial or corporate interests? Maybe they ought to pay for their security out of their own pockets instead of mooching off of US taxpayers; that would save us huge amounts of money that could instead be used to help individuals and families in the US that could benefit from it. There are also other cost saving measures, such as cutting funding for NATO and the UN, that we could implement to save money that's being given away.
The degree to which the US economy relies on violence and the threat of violence is obscene.
