Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!hogg From: hogg@utcsri.UUCP (John Hogg) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: But who pays? Message-ID: <1341@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 16:32:12 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.1341 Posted: Thu Aug 22 16:32:12 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Aug-85 17:04:49 EDT Reply-To: hogg@utcsri.UUCP (John &) Distribution: can Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 20 In the past few days, everybody from hawk to dove has been bemoaning the tragi-comic state of our armed forces. I agree; all three branches need a massive infusion of cash, with special fire-fighting attention being paid to state-of-the-art icebreakers. Now, for the key question: where's the money going to come from? The right-wingers on the net (that's me, in this particular context) won't want to further increase a massive deficit, and increased taxes generally aren't popular. This leaves only cuts in existing expenditure. To the south of us, we have the example of Reagan Hood, taking from the poor and giving to the military. Is that what we want? Can anybody give me NUMBERS indicating how, in the long run, they would come up with sufficient cash to do anything meaningful? One-time fire sales ("Sell off Petrocan!") don't count. Go to it; I defy anybody to make a concrete, feasible proposal that even a majority of net posters will be happy with. -- John Hogg Computer Systems Research Institute, UofT {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!hogg