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What is the value in measuring expenditure alone? Doesn't the income generated by those activities also factor into the equation?
by InvertedRhodium 5y ago
What is the value in measuring expenditure alone? Doesn't the income generated by those activities also factor into the equation?
- brokenmachine 5y agoGovernments don't usually do things from the joy in their hearts, or out of the care for their constituents. I'm more inclined to think that smokers aren't subsidizing everyone as much as they like to think.
- InvertedRhodium 5y agoGovernments, when objectively correct, tend to release data to support their position. The only value in measuring expenditure alone is in how the uneducated interpret it as more favorable.
- brokenmachine 5y agoSo what you're saying is that the government is leaving money on the table out of care for the health of the people? That's terrible...