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Re:Zero energy ready homes are coming by xthrown1 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:39PM (#35063009)
The majority of US taxes come from cities. It's the hinterlands that are free riding on the US armed forces.
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Re:Zero energy ready homes are coming by IncRnd on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:12PM (#35063361)
> It's the hinterlands that are free riding on the US armed forces.

Yet.

"In every region of the country, recruitment rates were higher in rural and exurban counties than in urban counties. Only urban counties in the South had recruitment rates above the national average. Cities in the Northeast, Midwest and West all had rates well below the national average." [1]

[1] https://dailyyonder.com/largest-share-army-recruits-come-rur...

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Re:Zero energy ready homes are coming by xthrown1 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @08:34PM (#35064013)
We can always hire cheaper foreign mercenaries. It's not like the current US army is actually needed for defending the US.
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Re:Zero energy ready homes are coming by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:27AM (#35065900)
It’s absolute numbers that matter, not rates.
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