That has nothing to do with post 35. I asked a simple question in post 35, do you have a response?
Post 35 reads:
We should also reduce the military budget by issuing Letters of Marque and Reprisal. Let the private sector put up the money and make a profit from some of these conflicts.
How would that work in Grenada, or Desert Storm, Or the Iraqi invasion, or Afghanistan, or in a close to war stand off with China?
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Sorry, I thought it is obvious that countries can’t invade other countries using letters of marquis. So they would have no effect on Grenada, either Iraq invasion, or Afghanistan. Therefore, we would still need a strong military and a robust military budget.
In a standoff with Red China the threat of using them to disrupting their oil imports and would be a help in keeping them in line.
China gets almost all of their oil by tanker. Private companies could capture those tankers and sell both the tankers and cargo for a nice profit. Many tanker owners would refuse to carry oil to Red China and risk losing their ships. This would slow Red China’s economy and hamper their ability to make war.
We could also threaten to use them to shut down all their seaborne trade. Private warships could devastate their economy by substantially reducing their imports and exports.
The savings would not be anywhere near the savings from cutting out things like socialized schooling or Obamacare or Bushcare. But they would be more than we’d get from eliminating things like the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and numerous other programs that should be eliminated. It would save some money and every dollar we don’t spend is a dollar we don’t have to borrow.