Economic costs of war

Re:Economic costs of war by yunohn on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:37PM (#28204232)

> there's no evidence that Congress would have spent that money on something else

“Reality is unchangeable, so we can’t know the unknown”

So what? It definitely could’ve been spent better than decade’s killing hundreds of thousands of civilians.

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Re:Economic costs of war by Grakel on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:42PM (#28204294)

You don't get it. It couldn't have been spent on something else. If the day before 9/11 Congress had passed universal healthcare, free college, and basic income, they still would have spent this money on a war. Are you saying they could have said, oh we got attacked, let's estimate the cost of a war and put it into healthcare?

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Re:Economic costs of war by yunohn on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:45PM (#28204321)

No, I’m saying the USA didn’t need to make it a multi-decade war, killing civilians while they were at it.

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