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@doctormo@floss.social In the start of the second Gulf War, when a Marine buddy asked me to contribute to a fund to get Marine vehicles up-armored and update their body armor, my dad was outraged. This was a son of a Marine and someone who, while too young to serve in WWII, could recite every battle and every movement with tremendous detail; the man was a patriot. And his argument was that President Bush came in to office and cut taxes and then went to war ("with the army you have," according to Rumsfeld), and reduced the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet into one begging for loose change. "If you want to cut taxes so much that our boys are driving in thin-skinned Humvees, I am not chipping in what we all should have been levied in the first place." I couldn't argue.