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Can you believe the budget for Fast and Furious 10 is $340 million? Here comes the classic …“Oh wait”, … someone is once again complaining because we are spend
by melling 4y ago
Can you believe the budget for Fast and Furious 10 is $340 million?
Here comes the classic …“Oh wait”, … someone is once again complaining because we are spending money on “superficial” healthcare (e.g. hair loss, grey hair, aging etc)
Spending money to better understand the human body is valuable. Sure, I wish people would wake up and demand that we cure cancer(s), Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, etc. In lieu of that, we should be happy that money is funneled into “healthcare” to solve any problems.
Btw, interest on the US debt will soon be over $1 trillion a year.
- feoren 4y ago> interest on the US debt will soon be over $1 trillion a year And that trillion dollars gets, what, flushed down the toilet? No, it goes into the hands of bond-holders, who spend it the same way they spend the rest of their money, including on plucking hairs out of mice to study aging. (Obviously I mostly agree with you here, just nitpicking the idea that that trillion dollars is "wasted" somehow.)
- melling 4y agoWell, we either have to raise taxes or keep increasing the debt, paying even more interest. That doesn’t sound like an efficient use of capital.
- feoren 4y ago> That doesn’t sound like an efficient use of capital. It is literally 100% efficient. There is no source of inefficiency. The reason is because that's not where the "use" is. Look for inefficient actual "uses" of government money (there's a lot), and argue against those. Interest is not waste; the capital doesn't go away. It just changes hands.