Ok, but the majority of social security payments are redistribution. Money taken from earners and given to old people
The majority of military spending is taken from earners and gets thrown into a giant hole in he ground; into bombs which sit in a bunker somewhere, or into paying people to die or get disabilities so they can’t produce real wealth in the future.
That’s a HUGE fundamental difference.
You pay into social security and eventually you get back something which is less than you put in, but you still get something positive back. You pay into the military, and you get back what? Terrorists? Cops with PTSD? People in wheelchairs?
It’s the difference between paying in a dollar and getting $0.70 back and paying in a dollar and getting -$0.30 back.
Personally, I’d support well regulated militias and the submarine fleet, I can’t think of an argument as to why it would take any more than that to deter aggression by any state against North America.
Oh, sorry. The military and military installations don’t produce security? Then what are we paying them for? And are you saying the military is privately owned? Because if it isn’t, that means its publicly owned.
Socialists are not opposed to military spending. They are opposed to spending on particular wars. If you ask someone who advocates those wars why they do, they will tell you that it is to help people in other parts of the world. In other words, welfare for foreign poor people instead of domestic poor people. Socialism is the problem and the entire problem at that.
No you don’t. You lose, according to your scenario, 30 cents. You’re not gaining, and to think you are is silly. You’re not even gaining interest for your money. And there isn’t a huge fundamental difference. If you disagree with both on ideological grounds funding them seems equally silly. Although, in my opinions, military expenditures don’t even pretend to benefit society, but according to you we’re paying the salaries of all those military men. So just exchange “military man” for old people and you get basically the same program.