• blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I’ve read it. I just don’t get the math. Are the trillions primarily open, not golden toilets and secret ufo labs? How do we spend this much and not live up to the story about being able to fight half the world with a hand tied behind our backs? Where are my fucking tax dollars?

    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      You know where your tax dollars are. They’ve gone to overpaying for nearly everything by like an order of magnitude because that’s how the rich launder their money: sweet, sweet government contracts. And all the private contracts they generate in turn.

      Being upset about how your taxes are being spent should be pretty low on the American priority list though. The government’s owned by organizations, for starters…