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It's really not DEA budget 2B in 2018 Cash + property that can be liquidated: 340M in 2018
by X6S1x6Okd1st 6y ago
It's really not
DEA budget 2B in 2018
Cash + property that can be liquidated: 340M in 2018
- gruez 6y agoThe implication is that it's profitable for the contractors, not for the public.
- michaelmrose 6y agoIt means the public lost 2.34B and DEA gained 2.34B
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoThere are a lot of people on HN that would take serious issue with any implication that any given tax dollar has anything less than a net-neutral effect for the taxpayers as a whole. Oddly they seem to keep really quite when the topic of the war on drugs comes up.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoTo be fair saying something is not profitable doesn't mean that it isn't a net-benefit for the country. I personally don't think that our current approach to drugs produces a net-benefit, but figuring out the true effects of alternatives is really not simple at all.
- anigbrowl 6y agoIt's profitable for the footsoldiers, just not the taxpayer. Pro cops get paid bank.