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womanofthehills

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Wed Oct 8, 2025, 04:34 PM Oct 2025

US cost of war in Gaza -That's $45 million dollars EVERY. SINGLE. DAY

(can you imagine what this money could do if used to build housing for the homeless, improve our cities, give us free healthcare (like Israeli’s have) , give us all a big tax rebate) plus etc etc

The war in Gaza cost the US over $30B—Most of it sent to Israel: Report

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-war-in-gaza-cost-the-us-over-30b-most-of-it-sent-to-israel-report/ar-AA1O0d9B

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US cost of war in Gaza -That's $45 million dollars EVERY. SINGLE. DAY (Original Post) womanofthehills Oct 2025 OP
I don't think $30 billion would give us free healthcare EX500rider Oct 2025 #1
Close to half a million dollars to kill one human being. AloeVera Oct 2025 #2

EX500rider

(12,770 posts)
1. I don't think $30 billion would give us free healthcare
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 04:43 PM
Oct 2025

The United States spent $4.9 trillion on healthcare in 2023. 30 billion is around .6% of that

As for a "big tax rebate" that come out to around $88 per person if everybody got it.

AloeVera

(4,406 posts)
2. Close to half a million dollars to kill one human being.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 04:51 PM
Oct 2025

Or less than half of that when the true death toll is known.

But the US can't spare $25 for fortified nutrition to save the life of one child in Myanmar or Sudan. Or feed its own hungry children at school.

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