the government doesn't make billions of dollars from selling weapons since the government is not in the weapon making business....rich guys with ties to washington and have had them for years, and their corporations, make billions selling weapons to the foreign countries that our government okays and does get a slice of in the form of any taxes and fees tied to these huge weapon sales, just like when our cars are sold overseas.
You need to try to stay up to date- Congress has always had to authorize foreign sales of weapons, by the Constitution as shown here-
Article I, Section 8
1.To lay and collect
taxes,
duties,
imposts and
excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
2. To
borrow money on the credit of the United States;
3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Native American tribes;
4. To establish a
uniform rule of naturalization, and
uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5. To coin money,
regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of
weights and measures;
6. To provide for the punishment of
counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
7. To establish
post offices and post roads;
8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors
the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
9. To constitute
tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
10. To define and punish
piracies and felonies committed on the
high seas, and offenses against the
law of nations;
11. To declare war, grant
letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and
water;
12. To raise and support
armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
13. To provide and maintain a
navy;
14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress
insurrections and repel
invasions;
16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the
militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such
District (not exceeding ten miles (16 km) square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of
forts,
magazines,
arsenals,
dockyards, and other needful buildings.
