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Doesnt have to be that way ... lots of spare cash going to defense dept. Why do we always have to find ways to pay for social well being but always got the cash for over priced guns?

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Defense money is budgeted year over year. You could give this stimulus payments to people for two maybe three months and would have spent the defense budget for a year, so now where is the money going to come from?

$300 billion does add up fast. Pull everything out of BTC before China reveals tether is a scam?

This same logic could be applied before the defense budget became what it is. As in where would the hundreds of billions for defense come from? Same with the overspending on health care. Yet the country manages and has managed a ballooning budget and deficit so far.

The tie to the status quo being some semblance of good or positive never makes sense to me. The status quo wasn’t always the status quo. It only is now. The country likely won’t teeter on hyper inflation if an extra trillion or so is added to the budget. Especially when a proposal like this would involve a lot of the money going back into the economy.

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