The 2018 US Military Budget was right at $700B:

https://militarybenefits.info/...

For the sake of the conspiracy folk let's allow as it is actually double that, so $1.4T.

So then if we halve that we're back down to our $700B.

OAC's bill has an estimate cost of $4.1T. That has been widely criticized as too little, and estimates I could find online range from $14T to $50T over 10 years:

https://reason.com/blog/2019/0...

https://pjmedia.com/trending/o...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

Since these numbers are obviously off the cuff I went ahead and took the average of $25.66T over 10 years.

This means confiscating the $700B for the first year that the AC above suggested would account for approximately 3.5% of the cost. At that rate it would take around 35 years to recoup the costs.

Not to mention that catastrophic impacts on the men and women who WORK in the DoD, disruption of every line of industry who makes and supplies equipment to them, etc. Many businesses would probably be severely impacted if not completely out of business.

TLDR: The AC who suggested cutting the military budget in half for a year has zero understanding of what that would do or cost.

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Heavy capacity, small footprint, easily scalable.

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...that doesn't mean people want to PAY much to somehow fix/mitigate it. Look to France to see what happens when you try to tax people.

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I imagine he was rather disappointed with where our space program is at the moment though. Can't say as I blame him.

It'll happen eventually though.

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Funny you should ask that:

https://www.dallasobserver.com...

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Not only lots of jobs, but electric vehicles as well.....well done VW!

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Don't reckon I'm gonna allow that, nope.

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It might surprise me, probably won't. We'll see.

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They'll likely get it done effectively too. Not that I think it's all THAT hard to do "self driving" when it's a train, but it can certainly adjust speed and such to accommodate realtime feedback.

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That was THE store to go to when I was a kid at the mall....the sheer volume of stuff, the acres of floorspace, the huge display of lights at Christmas! Awesome times, awesome store.

They didn't adapt quickly enough, sadly.

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Yep. I simply could not stand the hyper-snarky, too-clever-by-half "it's about time" promos....

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You did it to yourselves, California.

You can fix it.

God help you, but I don't think you're going to.

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He can start producing a lower cost version of his car (let's call it the Model T) that shave a zero off those pricetags as a car "for the masses".

This is what Henry Ford did with HIS Model T; this is what Musk could do.

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> Non-renewable resources were always a limited supply

You do realize that those solar panels and windmills use a lot of those "non-renewable resources", right?

Until we get out into the solar system of course. There's a nigh infinite supply just waiting for us Out There....including hydrocarbons, by a quirk of fate.

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....says that not accepting cash is perfectly fine:

https://www.expertlaw.com/libr...

For myself I wouldn't bother to do business with such an establishment, but hey.....it's a free country.

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