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• stevehobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t know what in that sentence gives you the confidence to call me a warmonger.

  And also, no, it wont really. Unless you redefine “huge difference”. We spend $522B on social/economic assistance programs at the federal level. So a 0.005% increase? Hardly a huge difference.

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  • polarbear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    how did yoy get 0.005%? 3 x 100 / 522 is a 0.575 percent increase

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    • stevehobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      3/522, no reason to multiply by 100. Not sure why you are.

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      • polarbear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        that’s how percentages work lol. if you have 100 usd, 100.5 usd would be a 0.5% increase not a 0.005 percent increase (which you would get by dividing 0.5/100, right?)

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, just that 3 billion comes out to $60,000,000 if divided equally between all 50 states.

    By any stretch that is huge.

    You’re absolutely using the warmonger’s logic to support your position here.

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    • stevehobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Except that it’s half a percent. It’s another half a penny on every dollar.

      It’s not huge by any stretch.

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