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Should the government increase or decrease military spending?

Should Philippines increase or decrease military spending?

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Increase, but only after our deficit is drastically reduced

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 @9FYW9ZKfrom Bataan  answered…1yr1Y

The budget for the military must be relevant to the country’s needs. I believe that increasing the budget is increasing the tax or decreasing the allotted budget for the other government policies or social programs.

 @9F248GPanswered…1yr1Y

It's not a question of whether we increase or decrease military spending, but how we can more efficiently manage what we spend it on and how it is spent.

 @9DXX7VXfrom Bohol  answered…1yr1Y

Fiscal priorities must be put on the biggest issues of our country such as corruption, dominating political dynasties, poverty, and whatnot, which are grave national threats both to our generation and our posterity.

 @9DMPD5Hfrom Bataan  answered…1yr1Y

Decrease, considering the amount of money spent on military purposes than in medical facilities, needs, and health workers.

 @9DCB8YZanswered…1yr1Y

Only spend on necessary things and spending it a proper way without being excessive.

 @8NWNCKNanswered…4yrs4Y

Increase when only necessary.

 @9699BTSfrom Mindoro Occidental  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but only if the spending doesn't go to corrupt officials.

 @968QTDHanswered…2yrs2Y

That depends on whether there is a need to or if the military is fairing well as it is.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2wks2W

Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.