The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : F-35 Boondoggle: More Military Spending Is Not More Security

F-35 Boondoggle: More Military Spending Is Not More Security

Written by Daniel McAdams

Wednesday March 28, 2018

President Trump's huge military spending increase is based on a false premise: that more money means more security. If anything, the debacle of the F-35 fighter should demonstrate that massive military spending with no real purpose not only does not deliver more security but in fact undermines our security. A bigger military budget does not make us safer. It makes defense contractors and the revolving-door Pentagon officials much richer while emboldening the kinds of interventionist foreign policy that actually makes us more hated and thus vulnerable to attack. More in today's Liberty Report: