What about the US having the sort of domestic programmes that the rest of the developed world has such as a robust welfare system? Military expenditure would have to be cut in order to pay for this, although universal healthcare is much cheaper.
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Yes, have the USA follow the lead of their Canadian neighbours to the north by extending public ally-funded health care. Tax-payers still play for all their own health care, but it gives politicians an excuse to look generous and any time there is a short-fall in health-care funding, politicians can just "borrow" dollars from military budgets.
The drift towards socialized medicine started after WW1 when the RCL forced politicians to keep promises about long-term health-care for wounded veterans.
Eventually, the USA military would deteriorate to the same level as the Canadian Armed Forces. The current federal election includes talking points about whether the Royal Canadian Air Force should replace its (30-year-old) CF-18 fighter plans with universal day-care??????????