Nimos
Well-Known Member
The money you are talking about would never go to healthcare anyway, the Republicans are against it which they have proven several times.I don't understand Democrat voters.
I will never understand them.
They vote for the Warlike-Elitist-Circle that wastes billions of dollars on a war...whereas that money could be spent on free healthcare instead.
Democrats don't make sense to me.
That's why they lost.
If they really loved their own Democrat Party, they would kick out all the Military Industrial Complex out of the party.
However, if you do some math and take my country Denmark and we assume we had the same amount of people as in the US, then we would pay 378.5 Billion in comparison to what you are paying now. But also you have to take into account that a lot of the money goes back into the US as a lot of weapons, and equipment are being bought here which benefits the US economy. We have no weapon industry in Denmark at all.
And it is not to blame the US, because I am honestly disappointed that the EU as a whole doesn't as a minimum match the US in financial support at least.
But I think people are being misled regarding how much it actually costs them. because it is big numbers. Just to put it into perspective:
The United States led the ranking of the countries with the highest military spending in 2023, with 916 billion U.S. dollars dedicated to the military.
So you could multiply the 916 billion by two and that is the amount the US is using on their own military, so 75 billion isn't really that much. (Obviously have to take into account that one is euro and the other in dollars, but they are roughly the same)