For 50 days out of a year, an average U.S. worker’s income taxes were wholly paid toward militarism.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://truthout.org/articles/the-average-us-taxpayer-spent-4049-on-war-and-weapons-last-year/
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Adding insult to injury, because of the pipeline of equipment to the police, we don’t even get cool cheap military surplus like during the Cold War.
That’s interesting to consider. Are there still “Army/Navy stores” out there? I’ve never noticed any around me
All the ones I know of have closed. They really only had overpriced replicas at the end.