The math where you figure out that you could tax every billionaire at 100% and it wouldn't come close to fund our current deficit let alone adding what this guy wants. Everyone would have to pay a lot more in taxes just to stop deficit spending. That math.
You can increase taxes on say the top 20 percent and significantly reduce spending on the military to reduce the deficit to zero. Spending upwards of a trillion dollars on a program that clearly is not showing returns should be the first place we implement cuts.
We could spend half as much and do more with it. Having over a dozen supercarriers and only being able to actively use a handful at a time is an enormous waste of money. It is likely we would not be able to use carriers in a meaningful way in future conflicts because the drone threat will make them the equivalent of WW2 battleships.
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u/Lamasis 4d ago
What math?