Which is my point exactly. $1.7 billion is nothing. We spend $800 billion a year just on our military.
maybe if the army stopped paying for peoples' college educations (and suvs and houses), they could make a small dent in this huge military spending budget. so i guess these soldiers are worse than illegal immigrants in that respect, they are costing us more than them!
Good lucking finding soldiers then...
The biggest problem is this:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html2 trillion bucks down the drain.
It's quite simple actually: USA should stop playing world police. There you go, 2 trillion $ of taxpayer money saved! Who would've thought, right?
And of course with Bitcoin it would be nearly impossible to print so much money to fund wars (well, unless you're Satoshi and you want to donate your 1m BTC stash).