[scarface74]

The military is not deployed based on needs. There have been plenty of cases where the military wanted to close a base that they didn’t need or decommission a weapons system and a powerful senator in a Red state wouldn’t allow them to do it because of the job loss in their district.

So the Red States should be okay with

The “Military Times” for what’s it’s worth, is not a left leaning site by any means

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2016/04/19/...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/14/base-closings-hot-potato-iss...

And it doesn’t matter as far as the child tax credit. It still means that the federal government is spending more in the state than it gets in. Which state would be better off if it didn’t have to pay federal tax for anything except the military -California or Mississippi?

The same argument as far as tax credits could be used for welfare benefits. They are just taking advantage of money that they are legally entitled to. Would conservatives agree with that argument?