1) $738B defense authorization this year. 2) 2017 $2T tax cut w/ $.83 of every $ going to the richest corporations & people. 3) $500B Covid bailout already to the same corporations who got the money in 1 and 2. Ready for the political revolution yet?
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We spend $.54 of every $ on defense related investments, but it’s been proven we’d get more from investments in education & infrastructure. Transition from war economy to peace economy would create more jobs, not fewer. And corp bailouts did not include requirement to pay workers

May 6, 2020 · 5:25 AM UTC

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It would be better for the global economy to give the money away than to use it to destroy. Granted the US does get to steal resources & enforse slave labor through wars, but that still decreases productivity and makes us poorer.
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Or mortgage payers, or rent payers. Several of us haven’t received unemployment yet. Why not bail out from bottom up?
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Why are we spending $4 billion a month on a piece of dirt in the middle of the Afghanistan desert?
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