Jen Pan takes a deep look at the "guns or butter" debate. Pan outlines the connection between massive military spending and the collapse of social spending in the US. The ratio of social to military and police spending is a political choice: it is cheaper to control social unrest and police poverty than to build and fund truly redistributive social programs.
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