Thunder Jones has a good post on how what amounts to subsidies for high-tech (focused on military) could better be used in subsidizing health care, which will help businesses who are going under and strugging becuase they can' afford it anymore.
The Mundane Life of Thunder Jones: Choosing Your Subsidy
It is true that the military subsidy has helped to create the consumer microchip, the internet, and modern aviation. It hasn't been all bad. Then again, we've essentially been subsidizing the ability to dominate the other via violence or the threat of violence. Subsidizing healthcare will create advances in medicine as well as providing for the common good. I choose healthcare.
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