Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe - FPIF
Nobody
seems worried anymore about adding to the financial hole we just dug
for ourselves and our children with $1.5 trillion in tax cuts for the
rich.
It’s true that the military needs predictability, which
has been hobbled by politicians who can’t get it together to pass a real
budget. But the portrait of a “starved” military airbrushes out a few
facts. We’re now spending more on the military, adjusted for inflation,
than at any time since World War II — including during the Reagan and
George W. Bush buildups. We spend more than the next eight countries put
together.
Cutting
programs that help communities adjust to defense downsizing is
ill-advised during a time of defense build-down. (Photo: David B.
Gleason / Flickr)
programs that help communities adjust to defense downsizing is
ill-advised during a time of defense build-down. (Photo: David B.
Gleason / Flickr)
