Napkin math: 4,000,000 babies per year in the USA * $6750 = $27 billion.
USA 2020 defense budget: $738 billion
So this would cost ~3.5% of the 2020 annual budget of the defense department.
Not just to do the work, but also to do the dying.
Enlisting in the military is often a resort of financially destitute people who don't see many other options.
Well, among other things, like participating in mass murder.
I think it's pretty well known and understood. Not only a successful jobs program: a training/education one too, and the prime social ladder.
btw I'm not saying this is a good idea, I just wanted to make the point that there is plenty of money to pay for something like this.
Which is maybe why Bill Ackman's proposal here doesn't really make money accessible to working-age people, when they most need it to set up a less hairy lifestyle.
$250.9 billion for 2021, according to this article:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-passes-2509-bi...
https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/is-us-defens...
Also note that Brookings tends to lean pro-military so 15% is likely an under-representation.
If you remove mandatory spending it's more like 50%: https://prospect.org/economy/tax-dollars-really-go/
Too damn many of them are all talk and no action (or their actions contradict their past words when it means it affect them negatively).
This white-bashing has become so pervasive and accepted that people don’t even notice it anymore. I’m a brown, recent immigrant so probably more likely to notice.
Substitute any other group in place of “white guy” and it’s a major faux pas. The double standard is mind-boggling.
(Except I’m not really that old yet).
P.S. I specifically said rich white guy.
No.
Or are you implying that “rich” is a race of its own now?
Don't be obtuse. This has nothing to do with the 'rich' part.
I wonder if you would make the same disparaging comment now that you know Ackman is not White: "yet-another-rich-jewish-guy..."
I suspect not.
Regardless, looking at his picture, anyone could be forgiven for assuming he is "White".
I guess I'll leave out any semblance of race in my "rich guys" comments, lest I upset the snowflakes.
Those not on the left weren’t either, but we’re policed so much by the SJWs that we are just punching back.