Air Force wants U.S. taxpayers to fund ads to ask for more funds
Via FP contributor Benjamin H. Friedman, now with the Cato Institute, an astonishing gambit by the U.S. Air Force: This week’s Air Force Times reports that the Air Force wants an extra $59 million of your tax dollars next year to pay for a campaign to win tens of billions more of your tax dollars. ...
Via FP contributor Benjamin H. Friedman, now with the Cato Institute, an astonishing gambit by the U.S. Air Force:
Via FP contributor Benjamin H. Friedman, now with the Cato Institute, an astonishing gambit by the U.S. Air Force:
This week’s Air Force Times reports that the Air Force wants an extra $59 million of your tax dollars next year to pay for a campaign to win tens of billions more of your tax dollars.
You see, the Air Force’s research shows that the American public does not appreciate the Air Force as much as the Air Force thinks it should. Air Force generals worry that Americans may conclude that our current wars, which are relatively low-tech, ground power-centric affairs, are a reasonable basis for making procurement decisions. That conclusion may produce budgets that favor the ground forces, thwarting the Air Force’s plan to become the service that runs future wars. And the administration has already refused the Air Force an extra $20 billion for its annual budget.
So the defense budget submitted recently to Congress would more than double the Air Force’s advertising spending to insure that the public doesn’t figure out that platforms like the F-22 are white elephants.
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