The threat and urgency of climate change is all the more reason to take that money and apply it to those problems.

I agree in theory. Idk if we'll see that policy put into practice. Declines in emissions over the last four years have been minimal, despite an ostensibly large investment in alternatives. The biggest drop was during the peak of COVID, which should tell you everything you need to know about our domestic policies. We rebounded immediately afterwards as quarantines lifted.

You have asshole rich fucks commuting to the office by private jet.

And you've got businesses pitching "flying taxis" as next generation mass transit. Yeah, it looks incredibly bleak. I just don't see any future administration in either party seriously curbing these excesses. Not when they're so beholden to the money these private jet commuters spend during election season.

Why do you assume the taxes have to go hand in hand with investing in war?

Wars are incredibly expensive and put huge demands on domestic industry.