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When the left says we should stop spending so much money on the military and more on social programs, do they actually agree with Trump?

The reason we have to spend so much on our military is because our allies take advantage of us and rely on us for their national defense instead of spending on their own military. You ever wonder why those socialist European countries the liberals are always praising can spend so much on social programs? It's because they spend almost nothing on their military because they know America will protect them, so they don't really need their own military. Trump has been saying that our allies need to start paying for their own defense all along. Remember when it was controversial that Trump asked the South Koreans to pay for the missile defense system we were going to give them for free under Obama? That's where our taxes are going at the moment. It's going into free defense for all of our allies, while they spend their tax money on other things like health care, etc. 

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  • 10 months ago

    The reason we have to spend so much is because Congress requires the military to spend money buying things produced in the districts where Congress wants to create jobs, even if the military doesn't want it or can't use it.

    The reason that European countries can afford to spend more on social programs is because their taxes are high enough and ours are too low.

    Military spending isn't why we have less for social programs; we borrow so much that if our taxes were reasonable, then we might have more to spend on social programs than they do.

  • 10 months ago

    He literally just bragged about all the money he gave to the military to “rebuild” it when it needed to be cut by 70% to begin with. Most money goes to shady manufacturing contracts

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    10 months ago

    We give foreign aid, they buy our weapons. Translation: The US taxpayers buy weapons for foreign countries.

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