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South_Florida_Guy 498 points ago +499 / -1

So was income tax and the IRS

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IncredibleMrE1 [S] 300 points ago +300 / -0

Hey now, I'm not THAT old. There might be some people in Michigan and Pennsylvania who voted this year that are old enough to remember that, though.

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everydaybetter 40 points ago +41 / -1

Yes, so was DHS. All to end when the war against terrorism was won. Three months or so later Cheney gave a speech that that basically said that we (the US) was in a Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) that would be endless and implied it would be fought by generations to come. Only the neocons in both parties cheered it.

Before that you had two decades of US funded wars or US fought wars: Afghanistan during the Reagan years and Iraq Gulf war during Bush 1, and US basically bombing Iraq and patrolling the Iraqi sky non-stop under Clinton and later the war against Serbia and the "peacekeeping mission" that's still going on there. Basically, the country has been at war since Pong games and Commodore computers were a thing to the PS5 and Win 10.

This is why Trump stopping the endless wars is really significant,