• Ooops@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Your problem isn’t even that the military budget is out of control (alhough accounting could be better), but a lot of this budget is only “military” by designation used to keep US jobs.

    But “We spend much on our strong military” is much better politically than “We have to spend much to subsidize industrial jobs”. And they can even recoup some of the costs by exports then.

    If you are actually looking for problems… look at the industrial part, not the military part of the US’ MIC.