No no it doesen't states barely have a military the National Guard is in a weird place. But the military is a federal thing because soldiers are loyal to the nation not their state. State funding is not relavent anymore than city government funding.
Tax burdens rose across the country as pandemic-era economic changes caused taxable income, activities, and property values to rise faster than net national product. Tax burdens in 2020, 2021, and 2022 are all higher than in any other year since 1978.
taxfoundation.org
State government spending is very relevant at least in some states.
And they can be easily taken care of by one nation with a competent navy.
No they cannot. It would take a massive competent navy to actually take care of them easily.
Maybe that's because we go in there and do our own raiding. Isolationists want to avoid contact with those people so they can't raid us, YOUR position is the one that leads to war.
LMAO no you don't do raiding at all. If western countries were doing raiding, it would be something straight out of Warhammer, with nothing of value or alive being left after the raiding is over.
So isolationists are people who watched too much Star Trek and got some seriously naive to the point of retardation ideas from there.
"Let's not have international trade" is the isolationist equivalent of greens who go "just stop oil". Sounds nice to someone who doesn't know how anything works, but would be a
nightmare to actually implement in reality and would translate into an economic crisis that would compare only to 2008, Great Depression and Covidiocy taken together.
It worked in world war 2 where before we had a small army but in the war we ramped up. I want us to be cautious and not jump into wars because Vietnam, Iraq, all the others they were not about protecting American freedoms so there is no reason to give support to them.
Small army, yes. Also world class navy and nice tech in air force.
That was at a time when a country even in peacetime could pump out state of art aircraft by thousands per year. Now few air forces have 1000 combat planes in total.
No, we are not talking about a jungle/sandbox adventure here so i laugh at those comparisons.
One trillion my god. No we don't need or want that, an empire is useless to us.
No, that's just to not be fucked with. For an empire, multiply by 2-4 times further.
Do you think that the majority of our spending goes to the soldier's salaries? LOL no it's because of what we spend on our air force and navy and their advanced technology. The Army and Marines aren't that pricy.
Do you think all the companies making military equipment can make their stuff at Chinese sweatshop costs? Of course not, and that has an effect on how much US military has to pay for those technologies.
Salaries alone cost about as much as procurement. That and RnD also include the high US salaries in civilian sector that actually does the work.
Operation and maintenance, aka doing shit, means fuel, maintenance, also paying contractors for some of that.
Why do we need to fight them all at the same time? Why should we do that? If our allies are so useless then maybe we should drop them and let Russia take Europe.
It's not your choice when it is needed to fight them, it takes only one side to decide when a conflict goes hot.
LOL Double. Why do we need to touch desert barbarians on another continent? Not all of us have a hate boner for brown Muslims like Neocons you know.
I don't know about you, but i think a lot of Americans enjoy the economic benefits of world trade quite a bit, even if most of them do not understand completely how exactly that goes and how disruptions in shipping or energy supply can really throw a wrench into that.
You are free to ignore that, but i guess when one day Amazon packages stop arriving or gas stations have ridiculous numbers of them, all the naturally resulting angry people should be pointed to have a word not with the establishment so many love to shit on, but with with all the isolationists, leftists and pacifists who were whining about hate boners for brown Muslims.