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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by adamc on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:51AM (#42793419)
This is just wrong, on many levels. If you look where tax revenues go, it's mostly defense (military industrial complex) and middle-class entitlements.
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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by mminer237 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:12AM (#42793658)
That's just wrong. Defense spending is 13% of the budget: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59727

Federal taxes are mostly spent on welfare like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, & SSI.

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by ericjmorey on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:24AM (#42794463)
You just said that "the budget is mostly Y" in response to, "the budget is mostly X + Y"
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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by dgfitz on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:54PM (#42796818)
Huh?

adamc said "budget is mostly A + B" and the response was "no, its mostly W + X + Y + Z"

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by adamc on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:57PM (#42797419)
The things he cites are mostly middle-class entitlements. That's where a lot of social security and medicare spending goes.
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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by dgfitz on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:46PM (#42798814)
After… age 65. Right? Depending on when you draw SS.

So the middle class is now the 50+ age group?

This explains everything.

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by adamc on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:56PM (#42797406)
That isn't welfare. Most of those are middle-class entitlements. And defense is the second highest category: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

Calling Social Security "welfare" is some weird political stance.

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