What happens if you have a nuke?
a) you have to guard it
b) you have to maintain it
c) if you don’t use it, you have to remove it from your inventory and remove the nuclear material and do something with it
All of these steps cost money. Lots of it. The military is an inefficient enterprise in general.
Our country is broke. We can no longer do things without thinking about the costs. We never could. We just thought we could.
Fair enough. Let’s eliminate the military entirely.