Trump is in talks with Russia to end the war

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that's not how money works when you are the government and can simply deficit finance as much spending as you want. like they did during covid, to the tune of several trillion dollars. and that they do all the time with the military budget. taxes exist for many reasons: to shape the income curve, to discourage chaotic asset liquidity in the owner class, as a form of conformity and coercive control -- none of those reasons is "to pay for things for the american people". the national debt can never be paid, the currency trend-line is always inflationary, and the american people have for almost 100 years existed under this somewhat benevolent-to-them system of absolute financial tyranny, and almost no one sees it any more. most americans can't even balance their account, much less understand the difference between household economics and government macroeconomics. it's frustrating, because the ignorance is clearly deliberate and predatory. at this point, on the larger stage, america seems to exist for one reason: to provide unlimited spending and support to a system of propaganda and force-based domination ensuring the perpetuation of a world-spanning system of extractionist capitalism. and it doesn't seem like it's run by the people, for the people, that's for sure.

So the funds Congress approved for Ukraine are only gathered for Ukraine and float off into space otherwise?

I love ya man but explain like it's Sunday morning and the person you are explaining it to has been up all night.