Defense contractors employ a lot of (real, not javascript) engineers with good salaries and then those salaries get taxed again and then they pay for governme

Defense contractors employ a lot of (real, not javascript) engineers with good salaries and then those salaries get taxed again and then they pay for government meteorologists and then those salaries get taxed again and then they pay for construction Government spending is a fantastic deal because they automatically get a huge discount in the form of being able to tax what they give you. That's why privatization is theoretically far below optimal. After all, when there's a big fuckin' hole in the road at least you can call someone, which wouldn't be true if Google were building roads.