Bernie is the closest but there's stuff even he won't say. One doesn't question
the need for the bloated military or the Russian interference with our
elections or the necessity for protecting Israel as a Jewish state, not if one
is going to manage to survive politically in the US in 2020. It would be like
questioning the necessity for fighting Communism in 1950.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 2:17 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] FW: Bernie Finally Puts a
Number on Cutting Military Spending
I've heard none of the Democratic candidates take on the bloated military
budget. No one is calling for cutting down production of military weaponry.
No one is questioning why we have so many bases around the Globe, when our
weapons can reach anywhere on Earth from within our own borders. No one
suggest that we might do our nation a real service by setting our servicemen
and servicewomen to tasks such as cleaning up the trash strewn along our
nation's highways and in vacant lots, repairing low income housing and homes
owned by the elderly, providing escorts for small school children going to and
from school. All sorts of activities our military could turn their talents to.
And that's just in the cities and towns. Lots of help is needed by the family
farmers needing roustabouts to do odd jobs, everything from harvesting crops to
mending barns and fences to digging drainage ditches and more.
Impossible, you say? Think back to before the second world war, and ask if
Americans believed that we could ever become a Military State.
That would have seemed to be a foolish bit of nonsense...unthinkable.
But here we are.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/25/20, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: David Swanson via WarIsACrime.org <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:05 AM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Bernie Finally Puts a Number on Cutting Military Spending
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Bernie Finally Puts a Number on Cutting Military Spending By David
Swanson
https://davidswanson.org/bernie-finally-puts-a-number-on-cutting-milit
ary-spending/
Bernie Sanders’ campaign has published a fact sheet on how everything
he proposes can be paid for. On that fact sheet we find this line in a
list of items that collectively will pay for a Green New Deal:
“Reducing defense spending by $1.215 trillion by scaling back military
operations on protecting the global oil supply.”
Of course there is an obvious problem or mystery about this number,
namely, isn’t it too damn good to be true? The full cost of military
spending including numerous agencies plus debt for past wars, etc., is
$1.25 trillion a year. While one might like to hope that Bernie is
intent on leaving the military only $0.035 trillion a year, it seems
highly unlikely that he means that. It’s highly unlikely that he even
thinks of military spending costing
$1.25 trillion a year rather than the $0.7 trillion a year or so that
goes to the one agency misnamed the Department of Defense.
Elsewhere, the fact sheet uses 10-year periods to refer to certain
numbers, and 10 years is the most common random period of time used by
people to confuse budget figures for no apparent reason. However,
Bernie’s Green New Deal Plan
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/ZFQK> , which has long been online, refers to “15 years” just prior
to referring to cutting back military spending by an unstated amount.
This makes it highly likely that 15 years is the clue to this
particular obfuscation.
$1.215 trillion divided by 15 is $81 billion. And $81 billion per year
is the super-conservative figure that a study estimated the U.S.
spends “to protect global oil supplies.” I think we can safely
conclude that Sanders is proposing to take $81 billion a year out of
militarism.
Of course, $81 billion falls dramatically short of the $350 billion
that progressive groups have proposed
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WHc> moving out of militarism annually, or even the $200 billion
urged
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by Public Citizen, or even the high range of the $60 billion to $120
billion that the CATO Institute suggests saving merely by closing
foreign military bases.
On the other hand, the Sanders campaign has finally revealed a number
related to moving money out of militarism, but only in relation to
paying for part of a Green New Deal. It’s possible to fantasize, in
the absence of any information, that Sanders wants to move other bits
of military spending to other human and environmental needs. Sanders
has claimed he wants a “very different” military budget, dramatically
reduced; he just hasn’t put any approximate number on it — at least not in
recent years.
As Politico reported four years ago on Sanders, “In 1995, he
introduced a bill to terminate America’s nuclear weapons program. As
late as 2002, he supported a 50 percent cut for the Pentagon. And he
says corrupt defense contractors are to blame for ‘massive fraud’ and
a ‘bloated military budget.'” Those last bits are not really
disputable facts, but the fact that Bernie has said them out-loud augurs
danger for war profiteers.
The trouble is that presidents for the past couple of centuries have
performed less well in office than their campaign platforms, not better.
Secretly imagining that Bernie simply must want to significantly
reduce militarism is highly unlikely to produce a President Sanders
who works hard to reduce militarism — much less a mass public movement
that works hard to compel Congress to do so. Our best chance at moving
money in a major way our of mass-murder and into
mass-protection-of-life is to demand that Bernie Sanders take a
position now. Moving money out of the military and into human and
environmental needs is a hugely popular position in polls and has been
for many years. The corporate media doesn’t like it, but the corporate
media is already all-in on trying to stop Bernie — it can’t get any
worse. Taking a position now would be beneficial to Sanders and
distinguish him from other candidates
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Let’s look at how Bernie’s fact sheet proposes to pay for things.
College For All –> Wall Street speculation tax.
Expanding Social Security –> Lifting the cap on Social Security.
Housing For All –> Wealth tax on the top one-tenth of one percent.
Universal Childcare/Pre-K –> Wealth tax on the top one-tenth of one
percent.
Eliminating Medical Debt –> Income inequality tax on large
corporations that pay CEOs at least 50 times more than average workers.
Green New Deal –>
– Raising $3.085 trillion by making the fossil fuel industry pay for
their pollution, through litigation, fees, and taxes, and eliminating
federal fossil fuel subsidies.
– Generating $6.4 trillion in revenue from the wholesale of energy
produced by the regional Power Marketing Administrations. This
revenue will be collected from 2023-2035, and after 2035 electricity
will be virtually free, aside from operations and maintenance costs.
– Reducing defense spending by $1.215 trillion by scaling back
military operations on protecting the global oil supply.
– Collecting $2.3 trillion in new income tax revenue from the 20
million new jobs created by the plan.
– Saving $1.31 trillion by reduced the need for federal and state
safety net spending due to the creation of millions of good-paying, unionized
jobs.
– Raising $2 trillion in revenue by making large corporations pay
their fair share of taxes.
Key Points:
By averting climate catastrophe we will save: $2.9 trillion over 10
years,
$21 trillion over 30 years and $70.4 trillion over 80 years.
If we do not act, the U.S. will lose $34.5 trillion by the end of the
century in economic productivity.
Medicare for All –>
According to a February 15, 2020 study by epidemiologists at Yale
University, the Medicare for All bill that Bernie wrote would save
over $450 billion in health care costs and prevent 68,000 unnecessary
deaths – each and every year.
Since 2016, Bernie has proposed a menu of financing options that would
more than pay for the Medicare for All legislation he has introduced
according to the Yale study.
These options include:
Creating a 4 percent income-based premium paid by employees, exempting
the first $29,000 in income for a family of four.
In 2018, the typical working family paid an average of $6,015 in
premiums to private health insurance companies. Under this option, a
typical family of four earning $60,000, would pay a 4 percent
income-based premium to fund Medicare for All on income above $29,000
– just $1,240 a year – saving that family $4,775 a year. Families of
four making less than $29,000 a year would not pay this premium.
(Revenue raised: About $4 trillion over 10-years.)
Imposing a 7.5 percent income-based premium paid by employers,
exempting the first $1 million in payroll to protect small businesses.
In 2018, employers paid an average of $14,561 in private health
insurance premiums for a worker with a family of four. Under this
option, employers would pay a 7.5 percent payroll tax to help finance
Medicare for All – just
$4,500 – a savings of more than $10,000 a year.
(Revenue raised: Over $5.2 trillion over 10-years.)
Eliminating health tax expenditures, which would no longer be needed
under Medicare for All.
(Revenue raised: About $3 trillion over 10-years.)
Raising the top marginal income tax rate to 52% on income over $10 million.
(Revenue raised: About $700 billion over 10-years.)
Replacing the cap on the state and local tax deduction with an overall
dollar cap of $50,000 for a married couple on all itemized deductions.
(Revenue raised: About $400 billion over 10-years.)
Taxing capital gains at the same rates as income from wages and
cracking down on gaming through derivatives, like-kind exchanges, and
the zero tax rate on capital gains passed on through bequests.
(Revenue raised: About $2.5 trillion over 10-years.)
Enacting the For the 99.8% Act, which returns the estate tax exemption
to the 2009 level of $3.5 million, closes egregious loopholes, and
increases rates progressively including by adding a top tax rate of
77% on estate values in excess of $1 billion.
(Revenue raised: $336 billion over 10-years.)
Enacting corporate tax reform including restoring the top federal
corporate income tax rate to 35 percent.
(Revenue raised: $3 trillion of which $1 trillion would be used to
help finance Medicare for All and $2 trillion would be used for the
Green New
Deal.)
Using $350 billion of the amount raised from the tax on extreme wealth
to help finance Medicare for All.
All of which suggests that Bernie thinks he can pay for much of what
he wants to pay for without moving money out of the military. But he
can’t reduce the risk of nuclear apocalypse, decrease wars, slow the
environmental destruction of the most environmentally destructive
institution we have, curtail the impacts on civil liberties and
morality, or put a stop to the mass slaughter of human beings without
moving money out of militarism. The money needs to be moved out, which
as a side-benefit produces jobs, whether the money is moved to humane
spending or to tax cuts for working people. Not only that, but a
program of economic conversion needs to transition to decent
employment those engaged in supplying weaponry to governments around
the world. We need to demand that every candidate tell us now how much
money they want to move out of militarism and what their plan is for economic
conversion.
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