The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is possibly one of the most useless jets and biggest waste of taxpayer money ever conceived by the US military. According to Pierre Sprey, one of the three men that created the F-16, "the mission of the airplane, is for the US Congress to send money to Lockheed [Martin]."
We've spent nearly $400 billion dollars on the F-35. It will be 2019 before it can fire its own gun due to software issues, it is easily detectable by 70 year-old radar, and in a simulated air battle with China, it was rated "double-inferior," and it was documented that it "can't turn, can't climb, can't run."
If the F-35 is scrapped and we return our tax money to a functioning purpose, we can spend $62B a year and provide free college education across the country for the next 23 years.