The military budget isn't the entirety of military spending. It doesn't include the VA budget, the DOE budget (maintaining those nukes), the actual cost of wars themselves, etc.
Adding up all the parts, it's pretty close to a trillion a year - about 933 billion.
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-ch...
Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right?
by kwhitefoot on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:34AM
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The money paid as UBI doesn't disappear from the economy. People on low incomes spend everything they have and that money supports local shops, bars, restaurants, factories, etc.
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Would you please stop it with the flamewar comments? We had to ask you about this just recently. That last sentence is completely unacceptable regardless of how wrong someone is or it feels like they are. Being right matters less than destroying the commons here.
And nationalistic swipes, which we've also had to warn you about before, are emphatically not ok.
Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right?
by uk_programmer on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:19AM
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> It fascinates me that so many countries on the planet do things like liberal welfare and 'free' healthcare, yet the richest country in the world by a very wide margin calls it shenanigans.
Have you ever considered that it would contribute to why it is the richest country in the world?
And that's before we even discuss shenanigans like debt jubilees and free healthcare.
Even dramatic cuts to the us military barely make a dent to these kinds of spending proposals.