> The money spent on this could have been used to... ...do the thing that I think the money should be spent on. I remain surprised that this line of thinking

> The money spent on this could have been used to... ...do the thing that I think the money should be spent on. I remain surprised that this line of thinking comes up so often. Why do people so often have this idea that because they want money to be spent on something, that spending it elsewhere means it's somehow being taken away from where they want it? This was front and center with the Amazon HQ2 stuff when people were up in arms about where the non-existent money that was manifested in future tax breaks to Amazon could be better spent. I don't know what is propagating this line of thinking but it's starting to seem like a real problem.