And if it wasn’t borrowed? Are you claiming taxes paid for this?
And where did the money come from?
Taxes and borrowing pays for wars.
The Afghanistan war that spanned 20 years cost us roughly 1.8 Trillion over 20 years.
I’m not sure where you think we are spending trillions in one year on any war.
The total spent in the last 20 years on wars in the Middle East is roughly 5.8 trillion.
Are you asserting they are “printing” money and not adding it to the debt?
And yes, the borrowing for war was added to the national debt.
From where? I want to see actual documents that prove their claims - not conjecture.
Hardcore proof.
Wild claims require a high burden of proof and they have none.
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Then check the links.
Why don’t you post therealnews stuff anymore?
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Doesn’t matter. They’re the claim producer, and not a claim consumer.
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And all the wars, not just Afghanistan.
Here are just a few more. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/us-spent-6point4-trillion-on-middle-east-wars-since-2001-study.html
beginning almost 100 years of its existence the government was in surplus unless waging war, or in the throes of war, So during war time the gold-standard was abandoned and the principles of MMT were used so that the war could be funded with a more expansive fiscal landscape.
At the outset of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq under President George W. Bush, however, Congress cut taxes by roughly 8% for the wealthiest Americans. Since then, war costs haven’t been included in the regular defense budget, experts have noted.
the post-9/11 wars have been funded mostly by supplemental appropriations. What? Peoples taxes aren’t being raised? There are no “pay fors”? Hmmm…
I agree, we need to retard currency production and cut government spending immensely.
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Its about time we arrived at “THE MILLITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX…AAAAAGHH!” part of the anti establishment guys rantings.
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Yes but the question is what do we cut? Money for the wars, yes. Money for social programs, no.
Everything. Massively.
Hell yes.
Hell yes.
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We don’t need to cut money for social programs. We need to cut money from operations that kill people and make them suffer not ones that help.
What about all of the men and women that serve in the military and their wives,husbands, and children?
Or the contractors who supply and support those operations?
Thats millions of people and trillions of dollars nationwide that you’re just sloughing off as collateral damage of your plan.
Oh.
Oh.
You did a great job of explaining why we need one type of spending and not the other. Thanks.
Is this what you call justification to keep the military doing what they do?
Plain and simple.
Why? What do they do?
So your position is no matter what they do it’s okay because they’ve got a family, there are others who are employed because of the operations and trillions of dollars that are spent.
Aside from a poor attempt to put words in my mouth, you also don’t seem to understand that the military serves a multitude of functions.
So I’m asking you what they do that you feel is not worth having.
Have you ever been in any branch of the US military, or participated in any part of the supply or support industries that surround it?