I need some help weakening the US Military.

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??????????
 
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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??????????

Actually if the US went to universal healthcare there would be more money for the military since the US spends more on healthcare to get lower outcomes than any other OECD country. So to keep the military down keep US healthcare the way it is.

However if the US had extensive income support programmes for low income earners (in Australia the cut off for receiving no family income support is a household income of $156K), old age pensioners (the cutoff is $800K in assets for a single and $1.2 mill for a couple) and the unemployed (my middle brother hasn't worked on the books for a decade) then the US would need to find hundreds of billions annually and surely a good chunk of that would come from the military. However, and correct me if I'm wrong here, I think the situation isn't quite so simple because military and particularly war service is a path to receiving government financial assistance over a prolonged period.
 
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