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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It’s been a closer to 3B for a while. Against a budget of $1.7T. It’s not even a rounding error.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's always cute how warmongers pretend that those billions wouldn't make a huge difference for struggling Americans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I don’t know what in that sentence gives you the confidence to call me a warmonger.

And also, no, it wont really. Unless you redefine “huge difference”. We spend $522B on social/economic assistance programs at the federal level. So a ~~0.005%~~ 0.5% increase? Hardly a huge difference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

how did you get 0.005%? 3 x 100 / 522 is a 0.575 percent increase

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

~~3/522, no reason to multiply by 100. Not sure why you are.~~

You’re right my bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's how percentages work lol. if you have 100 usd, 100.5 usd would be a 0.5% increase not a 0.005 percent increase (which you would get by dividing 0.5/100, right?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You’re quite right, I’m a dummy.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, just that 3 billion comes out to $60,000,000 if divided equally between all 50 states. Instead it's being pissed away on other countries' wars.

By any stretch that is huge.

You're absolutely using the warmonger's logic to support your position here, so no need to clutch your pearls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Except that it’s half a percent. It’s another half a penny on every dollar.

It’s not huge by any stretch.