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kentuck

(111,052 posts) Mon Sep 13, 2021, 09:38 PM Sep 2021

Joe Biden's $3.5T dollar budget over ten years is less than half the present defense budget....

...over the same ten years.

It helps to have the right message and to put it into perspective. Otherwise, people think $3.5 trillion is the most money our government has ever spent.

($700B x 10 = $7T )

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Joe Biden's $3.5T dollar budget over ten years is less than half the present defense budget.... (Original Post) kentuck Sep 2021 OP

Good point. Wish "they'd" stop using "the over 10 years" metrics because Hoyt Sep 2021 #1

Hoyt

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1. Good point. Wish "they'd" stop using "the over 10 years" metrics because

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 13, 2021, 10:16 PM

Sep 2021

it obscures some realities. I think someone used it to make a small budget cut or tax increase sound bigger. Then it caught on with new spending.

Problem is, even Biden’s budget includes an increase in militant budget, although a modest increase. Right or wrong, doesn’t appear to be an appetite for military budget cuts.

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