I wish more people realized that $11 billion dollars isn’t a lot of money for the federal government. That’s $35 per capita. The government goes net positive

I wish more people realized that $11 billion dollars isn’t a lot of money for the federal government. That’s $35 per capita. The government goes net positive on a lot of projects indirectly. All they have to do is generate $11 billion or more in new tax income sometime in the future for a project like this to be worth it. Alternatively, it has to protect $11 billion worth of national interests. Maintaining and expanding this type of national technology lead is worth way more than $11 billion.