alt Hacker NewsYes, that’s the actual, primary reason for America’s wars, using them to plunder wealth in all kinds of ways.
The problem humanity has long had is that war is profitable for the parasites in society.
We should simply make all costs of war, including compensatory damages for innocent victims payable by the richest ~5% through taxation of their income and seizure of their wealth. They want war… make them at least pay for what they ordered.
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The amount spent on this folly in Iran (~95B) is roughly the estimated annual total Medicare fraud in the us. And that's just one federal services outlay
If you taxed them like that how would Daddy Warbucks be able to afford adopting a redheaded orphan with musical talent?
Add a frontline draft (no exceptions) to that and let's see how it goes. You can manage away cost but not that.
The richest 5% alone is simplistic but in the right alley. Anyone benefits a war, shall pay a chunk in a healthy society. Big one, considering the harm and risk on the society, regardless of the side in the armed conflict.
The trouble usually is, that the 95% has a huge portion willing to sacrifice anyone else in the same society they live on for peanuts dropped to them by the 5%! : / (see the Trump effect as a light example) Parasites are everywhere, being rich or poor, they suck out the blood of fellow people.
The share of ignorants (does not move a muscle in any direction) are even bigger than the peanut lovers so a healthy society is a fairytale. The economically stronger eat up the weak still.
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War is also an expression of the power of that 5%, so good luck with your taxation idea actually getting off the ground.
> payable by the richest ~5% through taxation of their income and seizure of their wealth. They want war… make them at least pay for what they ordered.
You are wrong to assume that everyone in that 5% want war.
And what about the soldiers or operations folks that actually carry out the war?