Technically your tax dollars aren’t being used. The US sells arms to israel. We don’t just give them away. So the US is benefiting from this war but not funding it.
The way I understand it is the money is given as grants to israel that have a stipulation that they need to be used to buy US military equipment. Basically it’s taxpayer money being used to buy from american companies via a 3rd party. War is a racket. Your taxes go to the MIC, not israel.
Technically your tax dollars aren’t being used. The US sells arms to israel. We don’t just give them away. So the US is benefiting from this war but not funding it.
What does aid mean then? Genuinely asking, I know the US sells weapons to Israel but don’t they also give financial aid?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/world/middleeast/israel-us-aid.html
Idk how I’m supposed to interpret $15 billion in aid as anything other than giving them $15 billion in money/supplies
The way I understand it is the money is given as grants to israel that have a stipulation that they need to be used to buy US military equipment. Basically it’s taxpayer money being used to buy from american companies via a 3rd party. War is a racket. Your taxes go to the MIC, not israel.
So our tax dollars are being used, but it’s ok because there’s 1 extra layer of abstraction?
I understand that buying american weapons makes the aid end up back in america but it’s still tax payer money being spent on weapons is it not?
Let’s hope the next administration re-examines whom it associates itself with.