{"id":923,"date":"2016-10-03T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2016-10-03T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:09:20","slug":"curing-world-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"Curing World Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations put a price on solving our global food crisis (world hunger). The price is around $34 billion a year (in 2008 it was <a title=\"NYT - UN Says Solving Food Crisis Could Cost $30 Billion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/04\/news\/04iht-04food.13446176.html\" target=\"_blank\">$30 billion a year<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Put that number in prospective&#8230; in 2015 the <a title=\"National Priorities Project - Military Spending In The US\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalpriorities.org\/campaigns\/military-spending-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">military budget was $598.5 billion<\/a> which is almost 20x more than it would cost to provide food for all the food insecure people on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Even if we weren&#8217;t to cut anything from our military or any other budget, we could still cure this problem and be a hero to all the world. (Just imagine how much respect we&#8217;d get if WE helped that many people.)<\/p>\n<p>The population of the United States was 318.9 million in 2014. Assuming about half the population pays taxes that&#8217;s 159,450,000 who pay taxes. If we were to raise taxes to fund the necessary $34 billion a year to cure world hunger, we&#8217;re looking at a tax increase of $213.24 a year. That&#8217;s roughly $0.59 a day!<\/p>\n<p>I think solving food insecurity in the world is worth another 59 cents a day I have to pay in taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations put a price on solving our global food crisis (world hunger). The price is around $34 billion a year (in 2008 it was $30 billion a year). Put that number in prospective&#8230; in 2015 the military budget was $598.5 billion which is almost 20x more than it would cost to provide food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8,6,30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-money","category-politics","category-quickie","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}