• mozz
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    6 months ago

    When money comes from the taxpayers and goes to people who are friends with the money-allocating decision maker people, it’s not a “waste,” from the decision makers’ point of view.

    Also applies to “expensive” wars, and also does a lot to explain why funding schools or the USPS is hard but funding the military is super easy. It’s not a cost; it’s a big ol’ haystack of cash that fell from the sky, and we gotta do that again real soon, man.

    • @somethingsnappy
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      36 months ago

      Maybe an addendum for wars is there are 95,000+ public schools and 19 large defense contractors. Funneling the money to the few is our (stupid) american way.