I am always intensely skeptical of the phrase "cost the taxpayers" when presented as a pure loss. It is almost always the opposite. It's like saying "Exercise c

I am always intensely skeptical of the phrase "cost the taxpayers" when presented as a pure loss. It is almost always the opposite. It's like saying "Exercise costs a person energy and nutrients." Well, no shit, but you get more value out of it than you input in the form of burned calories and muscle strain.