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by xor-eax-eax 503 days ago
The extra $40 billion or so taken as tariffs from ordinary people will add to the DoD-MIC, NASA (for SpaceX), and DOGE budgets to transfer wealth via corporate welfare. And the "savings" from destroying essential services like the NIH and CDC will undoubtedly go that way too. It's a cash grab.