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by orbifold 3927 days ago
The money isn't burned, it is used to stimulate the economy and keep people in the military industrial complex employed.
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No, the labor, application of skill, and physical resources that the money represents literally gets blown up. We have bridges falling down, not enough roads, the highest healthcare costs in the developed world, and we're spending money on bombs.