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KY_EnviroGuy

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11. K&R. Thanks for that simple, clean summary.
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 02:49 PM
Feb 2019

Our defense spending has always been the largest slice of taxation pork on our planet. Much of it goes to protect wealthy interests only, including subversion of the politics in many developing nations.

American defense spending causes other much poorer nations to spend tit-for-tat with funds sorely needed elsewhere for infrastructure and humanitarian needs. American defense firms love to gobble up those funds, so it's a self-feeding monster!

Not to mention that it helps keep much of the planet in a state of constant fear.......

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