Is cutting taxes the key to world peace?

Question

Combined with putting strict caps on "defense" budget. For some of these knuckleheads muscling around another nation is a game and they will use every dollar that isn't theirs to win it.

Answer 1

the key is planning ahead and cooperation. however we capitalists tend to rely of the chaotic free enterprise system...at any time we could think ahead as long as you dont mind some people having more that others....thats the real reason that we dont change. our class system threatens to take away the wealth of the rich

Answer 2

Cutting taxes is not necessarily the key to world peace. While cutting taxes (starving the beast, as some conservatives call it) and putting strict caps on defence spending might reduce our ability to preemptively wage war, it will not stop other nations from making war. In some cases, reduced U.S. government expenditures could actually encourage some countries to become more aggressive than they currently are.

This is not to say that we do not spend much more on defence than we need to, or that we could not cut back without endangering ourselves. I believe we spend more on defence than the rest of the world combined, and our leaders have certainly made some REALLY bad choices in how they want to project U.S. power.

A more useful way to encourage world peace might be to use some of the money we currently spend on defence on promoting democracy and improving economic conditions in the rest of the world. Democratic nations rarely go to war with one another, and people who are more concerned with bettering their condition are less likely to allow their leaders to take them to a potentially disastrous war..

Answer 3

It could be part of the solution, but mainly the most helpful thing would be more of a fair distribution of wealth and opportunities throughout the world.

Answer 4

Not sure where you're going with this.... Maybe the taxes should remain and the budget priorities should shift.

Answer 5

yes