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by eon1 3385 days ago
>Much of that money is used for funding..illegal aliens

Er, maybe, but far, far more is used on maintaining massive military superiority[0][1][2][3].. if it's tax dollars you're worried about, you ought to have far bigger concerns than "illegals".

[0] https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

[1] https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-military-spe...

[2] http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

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Typical example of "Whataboutism" [0]

The point here is not government spending priorities, but spending efficiently and justly in the fund distribution we have now.

In other words, we do spend money on illegal aliens, we spend more money on other things, but we should not be spending any money on illegal immigrants, no matter what else we're spending money on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

That's why we always use bit shifts for division. it doesn't matter if we're using an exponential algorithm instead of a linear one: the thing we should care most about is how fast that division is.