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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Not really.
I don't have the exact numbers around, but I've heard that if you were to cut the defense budget by just 10% (which is entirely feasible when you realize that they are paying for weapons and machines that are obsolete due to the military industrial complex), you could easily pay for just about everything in Bernie's platform.
I'll have to find that link again...
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Well, no, because then you'd suddenly have an unemployment rate skyrocket, a shrinking tax base, and a cascade effect that could kill entire towns and counties at a single blow. This is economics, it's not that simple and definitely not cut and paste.