Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "" video.

We’re always prepared for WWIII. That’s why we spend as much as the rest of the world combined on our military each year. Most of this has been in the works for decades. Deterrence is always cheaper.
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@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket We can afford both, but not when only the middle class pays taxes.
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@lomis99 Close enough. 40% of global defense spending in 2023 was the US and that wasn’t even close to our biggest year as a share of global spending.
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Only thing that’s really changed recently is 🇺🇸 ramping production way up of & trying to add cheaper missiles w/the 🇺🇦 war showed our models for shell/missile consumption were way off (though I’m not so sure that far off since we fight in a very different way and we’re not going to be in a war where we use much artillery).
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@bradcraig5111 It’s you who are clueless. They may seem to pay a lot of taxes, including as a share, but when you look at the actual amount of taxes paid by the wealthiest individuals compared to their net wealth, they pay nothing. Yes, people who make $500,000 a year pay a lot of taxes, but people who make $5,000,000 - $500,000m+ a year pay essentially nothing. Don’t believe me. Believe the billionaires who admit as much or look how much our glorious orange leader was paying on those tax returns he fought so hard to suppress.
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@pawpawstew I do, but just like my messages to my reps, senators + the White House to remove restrictions on Ukraine & provide more support, they aren’t heeding my commands.
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@pawpawstew We also need capital gains of many types to be taxed as normal income. That’s one of the biggest problems.
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@perhaps_not_ lol
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@bradcraig5111 Not sure why YouTube deleted my reply about taxes, but you show yourself to be ignorant. Billionaires and hundred millionaires pay multiple magnitudes less per year of their earnings than the middle class. Yes, if you’re on an actual payroll and making $300,00-$1,000,000+, you’re paying dearly, but the vast majority of the wealth is going to people far wealthier and none are on a payroll.
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@lordgarion514 Inflation. Ukraine’s arms have come from stockpiles that were retired and costing us huge $ to dispose of or near retirement arms that were never going to be used.
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@Goldenself Shipping? Yes, our labor is more expensive, but our stuff is far better and most of that money goes directly back into our economy and employs hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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@daeclipse03 OK, the B21 Raider, Rapid Dragon, etc. have not been in development for “decades,” but they did begin development long before this war or the tension w/the PRC really heated up. So, the point stands. The things he described are not a response to any one development or event. Though, of course, Rapid Dragon and the B21 are focused on projecting power over long distances and therefore the PRC, which they began worrying more than a decade ago. And much of the tech that’s foundational to these programs HAVE roots going back decades.
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@suokkos No. Deterrence is also much cheaper economically too. The fact that you aren’t aware of that shows just how poor a job POTUS has done explaining the reasons for providing aid to Ukraine. They also haven’t explained that we haven’t spent a dime on equipping them since 90% of what they’ve been given are retired or retiring decades-old arms that were paid for in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Many of which were costing us millions of dollars to scrap like DPICM, HMWWVs, MRAPs, etc. Those big $ signs people see = being spent on 🇺🇸 companies with 🇺🇸 employees building new equipment for the 🇺🇸 military. The only new arms going to 🇺🇦 in any quantity are mostly just shells and some of their GMLRS. And even if we pretended those dollar figures we saw was $ being spent on them it’d still only account for literally .002% of GDP.
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@chrisyoung9653 What’s your point? Either you’re saying we didn’t plan and we were alright or you’re criticizing the US for not having been ready for WWII when it broke out. The latter is no point at all. If it’s the former, we’re in a very different place from then. The country can’t shift and scale industrialization quickly like it did back then because we have no major industrial base currently and even though we were able to back, the delay cost millions of lives.
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@samo4003 lol. OK. Like Russia, this man is apparently not a “learning organization.”
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