AmidFuror

Your first point has already been made by others and is off-topic for the post.

European governments have budgets. With a set amount of revenue, they can spend more on social programs if they spend less elsewhere. If they want to keep their social spending and spend more elsewhere, they will have to increase their revenues. Not having the extra expense has made things better for them, and now that is going to end.

It’s very simple, and maybe people should stick to the point and not feel triggered to respond against hyper-capitalist America.

I feel like I’m responding to AI at this point. I already responded ad nauseum that I was not arguing anything about the US system. Now people want to use my comment as representing their favorite Boogeyman.

That statement applies to minimizing defense spending. Of course you can raise revenues and spend more. If you spend less in other areas, you don’t need to.

You’re the second person to write that, and it’s entirely irrelevant to European military spending, Russia, and Ukraine.

You might want to check your personal prejudices with how you treat other people.

Europe can grow their military and keep social programs at the same level by increasing taxes.

The USA can increase social spending by decreasing military spending, increasing taxes, or increasing the deficit.

There are other options like cutting fraud and waste, etc.

I don’t know why you were rude to me, but your audience approves.

They need to increase that but also keep more for themselves.

Thanks for so passionately rallying against something I didn’t write.

Lots of people are saying Trump is an asshole.

Trump is an asshole, and the US should absolutely be the leader in defending Ukraine given its stockpiles and technologies and the immediacy of the need.

At the same time, Europe was able to fund some pretty nice social programs by minimizing defense spending over the last few decades. They could only do that with aggressors on their borders by relying far too heavily on the US.

Thanks. I’ll be here all week.

That’s nice, but we really need to ship those batteries out to users for them to do any good.