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[–]72ndGender 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The cost of medicare for all, with different estimates and citations. $3t is a middle of the road figure:

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-will-medicare-all-cost

US defense budget for 2020 is $718b:

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/budget/2020

The defense budget isn't even close to covering the cost of universal healthcare in any of the estimates. As far as the spending on alcohol, tobacco, and fast food, I just searched "us spending on [insert item]" and grabbed the first figure I saw for a recent year. It wasn't meant to be a perfect figure, just an idea of how much we would need to tax those items to cover the cost of their effects on society. These taxes effectively fuck over the corporations who profit off of obesity and addiction, since sales would quickly plummet. Fuck 'em though.