'This isn't using our taxpayer dollars wisely,' said natpriorities. 'It's robbing programs that we need, like the discontinued child tax credit that cut child poverty by half.'
for at least a decade. Spending public funds so lavishly on war inevitably means not spending them elsewhere, and it's incredible to imagine what even a fraction of the money sucked up every year by America's bloated military-industrial complex could accomplish if invested differently.
Fundamentally, however, the case against the Pentagon's ever-expanding budget is a democratic one. Every year, the government of the world's most powerful country now allocates more than half of its discretionary funds to what is laughably called"defense spending"—regardless,"Corporate capture of Congress is a problem in most major policy areas," wrote Savage,"but defense contractors and other military concerns have a stranglehold that is arguably unmatched.
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