How much should be spent on infrastructure and general welfare as compared to defense spending?

[kentuck]

Democrats are wanting to spend $3.5 trillion on infrastructure and general welfare for people programs and Republicans are screaming about the price tag. Even some Democrats have fallen into their narrative.

Democrats want to raise corporate taxes and close loopholes to pay for the majority of the spending on these "people programs" but Republicans never want to raise taxes, only cut them. They never see a need for spending that might help the general population.

At present, we are spending just over $700 billion per year on defense programs. Over a ten-year period, that amounts to over $7 Trillion dollars - double the present request for the Biden Program to Build Back this country.

It's all a matter of priorities, not money.

Some politicians do not care about the people's needs.

[JohnSJ]

1. It is immaterial as long as we have a 50-50 Senate, and two of the Democratic Senators have

said they will not vote for a 3.5 trillion dollar package.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. From a more global perspective, spending on infrastructure IS defense spending. n/t

[droidamus2]

3. Too bad

Too bad there isn't a way they could tie how much is spent on defense to how much is spent on infrastructure and social welfare programs. There would be two possible outcomes that I see. One, there would be less new spending on defense as the Republicans wouldn't want the connected raise in the other programs. Two, if defense spending kept going up then so would the other programs. Maybe add in some tax provisions that primarily fall on the wealthiest of us when things go up. Not a very fleshed out idea but something to think about.