Then americans be: hey European countries, spend moar on arms!!

Good luck over there!

These figures for doing these things are inflated too. Childcare, healthcare, everything, private equity, and consolidation, and lack of enforcement of antitrust laws has led to price fixing, on all of this. None of this costed this much in our parents day.

Anyone has sources for the calculations/plans that support the amounts ?

I would love to share this to some friends

https://youtu.be/yj-C_mi5Tnc

Edit: assuming the downvote is because I dropped a link with no context: it's an anti war track about exactly this from a British folk artist

I had to look up the bridge dollar amount because I thought that was way too low. Turns out that it's very accurate.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/sd2024.cfm

We really do suck on what gets prioritized.

Poor and POC have been yelling about this for over 100 years. We were told to get some bootstraps and to stop looking for handouts. The Pentagon can't account for 60% of its already spent money and they want another $200 billion to kill poor brown people overseas? At least if they bombed us we'd be getting to see our tax dollars in person, if even for a milliseconds. Bets slowly dying in the world's best and wealthiest nation.

But think of the children!

Don't forget that they also always want tax cuts - especially for the rich. Trump's platform both elections have promised significant tax reductiona for personal and business taxes - and delivered (one of the few campaign promises he's kept to).

You whiners are losing sight of the big-picture, important stuff, like the unmitigated scandal where Hunter Biden once received a drink on the house.

Just imagine if we had health coverage that wasn't tied to our jobs. If you had enough money to live on you could -- gasp -- quit your job and couch it up or find a different one. Can't have that though, because that's too much like actual freedom.

It's people who are to blame.

Instead of voting for people who profit from war, they should vote for people who profit from the universal healthcare, childcare, absence of poverty.

See, the issue is that war is the business with the biggest margin.

That, and the added benefit of putting all the world in a state of survival which is seldom conductive of thoughtful reflection but rather throws most people Intl mindless consumption nowadays.

As long as they have streaming services most people will shrug off the sad and dangerous state of affairs, simply because its easier and confortable.

Are those figures to end those things for good or just a year?

I agree with the sentiment just curious about the figures.

Can someone please introduce a $200b bill for some of these things at the same time Pete puts out his hand?

Funny how money shows up instantly for some things, but disappears for others 🤔

We could do all of that, and fix all the roads, and build high-speed rail, but no, pedophiles need more private islands and mega yachts

And I thought the US was a $200B damage hurricane away from debt collapse

This is a really huge amount of money, FYI. Itemization of it isn't yet available until it gets to congress, but some estimates of $30B-$50B are for "regional/global needs" that are essentially repairs/reconstruction of previous capabilities now lost. If your loving congresscritters don't pay, then China will take over GCC. ROC/Japan allotments are unlikely to be prioritized, but then likely to leave US orbit. China has seriousfaced offered Taiwan peaceful reunification in exchange for some sweet LNG.

lmao why even pay taxes when they are just wasting it

Relevant Iran Conflict Cost Monitor

There's always money to kill people, never enough to save people.

I mean how much could a banana cost, Michael, 200 billion dollars ?

Someone is profiting from the war and no one profits from those other things

Obviously the loss of human life is terrible, but I want to add an economic reason also.

War is just absolutely terrible for the global economy. Munitions are single use. They explode and are gone. Not to mention the destruction of manufacturing, human lives, and general instability of wartorn regions.

Investing in infrastructure improves commerce. Investing in education, healthcare, and other social services increases worker productivity and number of workers. It's a no-brainer from an economic perspective to invest in all of those things.

A rising tide lifts all ships.

End homelessness, 20-30B. Yeah, that's a real number!

I am totally against the war, but these numbers are complete from the depths of someone's ass.

I'd like to signal boost @BarneyPiccolo's insightful comment, but really everything he has said in this thread is spot on.

When you understand the nature of game, you can't unsee the patterns. The oligarchs are all vying for more power; money is just how they keep score. Enmiseration of the populace isn't even as profitable as a content, healthy, educated populace, but it's a "nice" shortcut to expanding the power of a few (read: enslaving the proles). We never banned slavery in the US; we merely shifted the cost of ownership to the slaves.

"We don't gave the last PID"?