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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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.
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Using that money to fund education alone could pay for those workers to find new and possibly better jobs. Short term economic distress is acceptable when you're spending your dollars in a wiser manner. Wasting money should never be acceptable, and there is most definitely a LOT of waste in the military budget.
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