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It’s been a closer to 3B for a while. Against a budget of $1.7T. It’s not even a rounding error.
It's always cute how warmongers pretend that those billions wouldn't make a huge difference for struggling Americans.
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.
how did you get 0.005%? 3 x 100 / 522 is a 0.575 percent increase
~~3/522, no reason to multiply by 100. Not sure why you are.~~
You’re right my bad.
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?)
You’re quite right, I’m a dummy.