Man I hate the implication that the tax man is being unreasonable by applying basic goddamned tax rules to profits made in all of a persons enterprises. They aren't out to get you, they're out to collect a "fair" proportion of your earnings to pay for a crapload of services which you and your community use every god damned day.
We need real defense, not corporate welfare.
If you want to claim that military spending is not something you should fund. I suggest getting out of your bubble and campaigning to help elect people who agree with you. The price of democracy, in the meantime, is a bunch of military spending.
It's foolish to think that you only benefit from government spending if it results in money in your bank account or services you directly, personally take advantage of.
I'd argue that the "benefit" of getting rid of all the unnecessary wars would vastly outweigh all the "drawbacks" of the supposed chaos that would happen by getting rid of all the other programs.
IE, getting rid of all of it at the same time would be massive benefit to the overall world, in aggregate.
All you got to do is pay it off.
We could solve the debt problem is the same way that Andrew Jackson did. By selling off a bunch of government assets. The amount of debt we half is a drop in the bucket, compared to total government assets.
We really don't have that much debt, when compared to our total revenues.
We don't even have to halt everything at once. If we just get rid of the majority of our military spending, we would very quickly be able to pay off all our debts and then shut everything else down afterwords.
We could do it in 10 years if we really wanted, which is a very short period of time, as far as nations go.