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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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    stevehobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’re quite right, I’m a dummy.
    
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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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