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Re:Scotland starts renewed case for independence by mensetmanusman on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:32AM (#31738312)
The US subsidizing defense spending has allowed the EU to vastly expand social welfare spending on healthcare and education.

Those $100B in arms Germany is about to purchase will be that much less spending on social programs.

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Re:Scotland starts renewed case for independence by DocTomoe on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:49AM (#31739483)
Germany is essentially the 'why not both' girl [1]. No worries, those 100B Euros will come right out of additional taxes.

I want to point out that if we wouldn't get involved in foreign wars, we would not need that either. Last time we had a massive uptick of taxes for military spending (in the 1910s), we built a fleet to battle the British Navy (and we're still paying those taxes today).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgk-lA12FBk

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