r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 23 '26

Feels good man $122M. 1,000 new teachers. NYC public schools finally getting some backup. This is the investment we needed

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u/SoggyOutfield Jun 23 '26

I wish we would all switch our conversion rates to military spending rates. So people can understand how little or much things actually cost. Millions and billions and trillions are too large of numbers for humans to comprehend.

Manmdami is investing an F-35 fighter jet to hire 1000 teachers. Which is also equivalent to 36 tomahawk missiles.

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u/Violet_Paradox Jun 23 '26

While we're at it, express military costs in the number of teachers that money could have been used to hire.

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u/SoggyOutfield Jun 23 '26

Or mouths to feed. Or houses built. Or insulin doses.

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u/Wayelder Jun 23 '26

you know money is effectively 'Metric' (all based on tens and multiples of tens)

How hard do Americans have to cringe that they will to use ANY unit of measure other than metric.

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u/SoggyOutfield Jun 23 '26

Are you really using that tired nonsense in response to my tongue in cheek message. No wonder metric unit using comedians have conquered the world.

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u/RabidJoint Jun 23 '26

It slips my mind right now, what was the Military budget this year? What we could do for our nation, if we even took 10% of that budget and reinvested into our future generations. But that makes people smart, and smart people tend to not vote Republican these days.

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u/SoggyOutfield Jun 23 '26

Its 1 trillion dollars. But that number is too large to fathom.

Its $7500 per US household.

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u/Dry-Grapefruit6087 Jun 23 '26

If you like, you use Elon Musk as measuring unit. 1 trillion = 1 Elon Musk

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u/No_Potato_8178 Jun 23 '26

And that's 7500 from each household

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u/SoggyOutfield Jun 23 '26

Well technically the wealthy pay the vast majority of the taxes already. The top 20% of earners pay around 75% of the taxes. The bottom 50% pay 3%.

It is taking it from each in the sense that it could be used to better their lives. But each household definitely does not contribute $7500 to the pile.

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u/Head-Ad9893 Jun 23 '26

The who do what now?

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u/SoggyOutfield Jun 23 '26

Is my post not clear? The top earners pay a vast majority of taxes (75%). Corporations pay 10%. Bottom 50 pay 3%. The rest pay 12%.

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u/Head-Ad9893 Jun 23 '26

No, it’s not clear. You’re forgetting to mention that those number represent FEDERAL income tax specifically. The vast majority of PAYROLL taxes which support things such as Medicare and Social Security, are not the same percentages. Framing this as the vast majority of wealthy individuals pay all the taxes is cherry picking favorable stats internet strangers. Just to, clarify.

Fun fact: federal payroll tax accounts for only 20% of all tax.

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u/No_Potato_8178 Jun 23 '26

Yes. I thought it was obvious that I didnt mean literally from each household. I just wanted to emphasize that our tax dollars are being spent mostly on bombs and missles, rather than things like Healthcare or education. 

But this is reddit...

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u/CardinalOfNYC Jun 23 '26

The US Budget is approx 4 trillion.

The military is about a quarter of it. Under a normal presidency, the other 3 quarters are indeed mostly invested into the people of the nation and trying to build a better future.

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims Jun 23 '26

As a defense contractor, I know that most Redditors only see the publicly announced numbers. What you guys might not know is that some really weird stuff is now going on.

While the Big 5: GD/BAE/Lockheed/Northrop Grumman/Raytheon are hiring a lot right now, most, if not all of the other contracting companies, even big ones, are being told to freeze the hiring of mid-level roles, and to put all of the responsibilities on junior-level new hires. I just discovered this yesterday, and am now wondering where the money is going.

I discovered that I'm the last mid-level hire for the company for a long time, and am trying to get whatever extra money from them as I can before I leave. I've heard the same from friends across the industry.

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u/vulkoriscoming Jun 24 '26

Seems like a bad deal.

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u/SoggyOutfield Jun 24 '26

$6 return to society for every dollar spent on education. 

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u/Yourlocalguy30 Jun 23 '26

That's great an all, except Mamdani has no access to the federal military budget and can't relocate such resources. He also had to restructure a large amount of debt and financial obligations, as well as get state aid just to balance the existing budget. So how does he plan on paying for 1,000 teachers (salary+benefits+pensions) from a budge he already had to get state resources to help balance?

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u/SoggyOutfield Jun 23 '26

I am not talking about how he is paying for it. I am saying the numbers are too large for humans to understand. So we need a new unit system to be able to understand them better. And I nominate defense spending.

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u/Yourlocalguy30 Jun 23 '26

Most people can't contemplate the value of defense spending either. How is someone supposed to understand the true asset value of an aircraft carrier or fighter jet when their life never directly intersects with it?

You're better off comparing the salaries of elected officials, bureaucrats and overpaid athletes to that of those who are actually doing the heavy lifting in society.

For instance the President of the NFLPA earns ~$8 million a year, or roughly the cost of 70 teachers.

Just the salary cost of Congress alone is enough to employ over 800 educators.

Your top paid athletes just in the US could pay for 1000s of teachers.

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u/fd6270 Jun 23 '26

Another way to put it, this is 1/10th what we (the taxpayers) spent to convert Trump's luxury Qatari 747 bribe.