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How much of a problem is this, and how can it realistically be solved within the constraints of politics?

>> No.54872685
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>> No.54872732

Make another post faggot maybe somebody on this dead board astroturfed by reddit fags will reply

>> No.54872745

>>54872682
Politics doesn't have many restraints. But the solution definitely lies outside "electoral" politics.

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>>54872732

>> No.54873123

>>54873116
Oh you are from reddit. Got it. Go back reddit frog fag

>> No.54873134

Well for starters the 800 trillion a year we spend on the military could probably be cut down to like a third. There is no electoral path for this to happen though

>> No.54873144

>>54873134
800 billion*

>> No.54873173

>>54873134
Never gonna happen.
They are going to cut social security and still increase the military budget.>>54873144

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>>54873134
The US will have to choose some combination of spending cuts, increased taxes and high inflation. Isn't one of the politically easiest choices to trim military spending?
>>54872685

The problem though I think is that the parts of the military that will be the first on the chopping block are the nonpork parts, because those are a pure public good without any particular constituency

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>>54873123

>> No.54873287

>>54873276
You zoomers are truely the new boomers. We are lucky there are literally non of you. Young genx and old millennials fucked up your socialisation. If we get lucky as a society the few of you will die in a pointless war

>> No.54873295

>>54873173
Oh I agree. The military industrial complex is completely entrenched and defense contractors (boeing, lockheed martin etc) command so much lobbying power that the government would rather crash the entire economy than turn of the contract gibs machine

>> No.54873303

>>54872682
inflating it away probably

>> No.54873313

>>54873303
Yet that is apparently not politically acceptable, hence the interest rate hikes

>> No.54873414

>>54873313
they wanna keep it as subtle as possible

prices are already up 20-30% on most things since 2020, once those taxes flow through it'll be in a better state