Can’t speak for whoever you’re talking to but I’ve never grasped anything more in my life and this is speaking as a former 13-year-old.

Money making assets depreciate too. They’ve even factored it into the tax code.

Pretty sure that color combo is the only good thing about the new RAV4.

Say no if he offers to push the shopping buggy to your car. 

Nah, I’ll wait till they show up at my local Dollar Store.

End of Storey.

Im not questioning replacing them. I'm questioning replacing them... and then growing the fleet size. There are only ~60 B1s in active service, and only a handful of B2s. Does America really need this many bombers... at 2/3 of a billion dollars apiece?

As many as 286 could be procured. Now your share jumps to approoximately $600. Factor in an average family of 4.5 and now you are looking at close to $3000 per family. And that is just for one vanity offensive bomber project. Probably each family is ponying up $3000 apiece for the F35s also. This is just from 2…

And that’s $656M/per before any cost overruns of which you can be sure there will be many.

Well, yeah we have a public health care system that is the leading cause of bankruptcies and produces the worst healthcare outcomes in the western world.

yay, more weapons, more taxpayer money transferred to the defense industry

If our trains didn’t suck, people would ride them.

They’ll cost thirty times as much when we decide to save money by buying only five of them.

It’s actually more like $5.38/bomber. There are about 122 million Americans paying federal income tax. You can’t use the full population of a country to calculate each ones share - many of them don’t pay taxes because they’re too young, too old, or too poor. The person you were replying to is still backing the better…

What?! How does that look anything like a PCB? A jet-powered, murderous boomerang, possibly, but a circuit board?

The money would be just as good for the economy if we spent it on something that doesn’t murder people.

This has come up before. Boeing tried to pitch a 747 cruise missile launcher, which would have carried 120+ tomahawks.

I thought it was named after the NFL team that bombs every season.

The existing B-52s do that just fine. 

This shit is why our country is so far behind every other country in general quality of life.