• tty5@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    10M over 20 years to help a community of 3000 or $166 per person per year. USA is planning to increase the military budget by 150B this year or over $400 per US citIzen…

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah I was shocked by the math on that one too. It is ridiculously cheap to lower crime and poverty, while increasing graduation rates and college enrollment. It’s almost like keeping people poor and stupid and criminal is intentional.

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        5 hours ago

        Alternatively you could eliminate oil company tax breaks and direct subsidies and that alone would fund it.

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        12 hours ago

        It is if you don’t use it when you’re part of a contract that got broken from another Partie of the contract.