Economystic wrote:
Our economy is so large we can afford it.
We've also built a huge part of our economy around defense.
i've shown that we cant afford it and that we could have built our economy around something more productive. if you believe in capitalism, then you would agree with me. the free market would allocate resources more efficiently than the military. the engineers who built those war machines and the soldiers who lost their lives would have put their skills to better use building something productive in America. this is a very simply problem of resource allocation. the $10 trillion is savings is a very conservative estimate. the cost to the greater economy is probably 3-5 times that.