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Ok, get this. You elect politicians to "help slash federal spending".
What the hell is Musk even doing and why is he outsourcing this job to unpaid idiots, when politicians already get paid to do this?
Okay, I'll do a few suggestions for free:
Undocumented immigrants paid $96 billion in 2023, they don't benefit from them but imagine if all of them get to pay taxes.
I just wanted to add some context for one of these bullets.
The US is upping the amount it spends on nuclear weapons maintenance and production because China has reentered the game as a major player. They'd been stable at 300-350 warheads for decades but is expected to ramp up to producing 100+ per year by 2030.
So one major adversary has just been replaced by another. Everything old is new again, including the cold war arms race.
How are they making them? Just fuel reprocessing? You can make them pretty cheap as a side effect at scale of you want to. US can't though.
Reprocessing of old pits.
It's more a matter of precision, purity, infrastructure, and staffing.
And you can have them effective/guaranteed to work, safe/without personnel or environmental contamination, or cheap. Pick two.
my bingo card is almost full, just missing universal basic income - people with money, spend money, supporting businesses and thus "the economy".
I want YOU to be POTUS. Right now.
Interesting. During the Cold War, that was unthinkable, mostly because there'd be nobody to counterbalance a US monopoly on nuclear arms. Things have proliferated considerably since then, so perhaps a nuclear Russia isn't as important. If anything, they're proving themselves to be a liability.
Why would Russia have to disarm their nukes? That doesn't make any sense. Getting them to surrender the occupied territory would be enough.
That would be nice, but they won't suddenly surrender.
Russia already lost 500000-700000 men. This war only ends when Moscow is in ruins or when the nation is bankrupted.