[Cthulhu_]

A simple retort to that would be "Why should we pay any of our hard earned money to the government so it can send our children off to some fucking desert to fight in an unwinnable war that was started before they were even born?"

60% of the US budget is spent on the military. Reduce that to just 50 or 40% and suddenly, hundreds of billions would become available to spend on health care, education, infrastructure, etc.

Raising taxes is probably also something to do though, the US is racking up trillions in debts at the moment.

[refurb]

60% of the US budget is spent on the military.

No, it's 16%.[1]

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

[ceejayoz]

53% of discretionary spending, though.

[assblaster]

And the rest is non-discretionary, most of which is welfare: Medicare, Medicaid, social security.