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The bottomless pit of money

Judd Legum
Dec 11, 2019

When any of the Democratic presidential candidates propose a plan to improve health care, strengthen education, or reduce poverty, they are immediately confronted with a question: How are you going to pay for that?

That's a question that is never asked about the military budget. Yet, in fiscal year 2018, the United States spent more than the next seven c…

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