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Quick1711 t1_j201vzd wrote

>The spending bill would provide roughly $45 billion to help support Ukraine's efforts to defend itself against Russia's attack.

Not against the war in Ukraine, but wouldn't this money be better off allocated to something else? Couldn't we have taken it from the defense budget and given it to Ukraine?

These are our tax dollars, correct?

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monogreenforthewin t1_j204wn7 wrote

better off for something else? probably. but once money is allocated to particular "pot" for use, the money very rarely gets shifted around to another "pot". budgeting and accounting is very specific for government stuff.

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dbclass t1_j20en34 wrote

Sure but everytime we try to spend money on anything else people whine about it. No one whines when it goes to defense but anything else and people are screaming socialism.

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hexbatch t1_j21d13g wrote

Most of the taxes should be going back to the people inside this country, and they are

Ukraine spending is a hundred times less than the money going back to the states. The problem is the money going to the states is not necessarily spent on what it needs to be used on

Much of these pipes breaking is the local citizens paying a corruption tax for supporting decades and decades of mismanaged and stolen money. The entire USA has layers on layers of criminals in government at the federal state and local levels

Red states have more issues because more corruption, but blue states have a lot of problems too

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