“$12.7 billion represents less than one-half of one percent of the federal budget. It’s a rounding error.”
Yes, and as you spend those BILLIONs over the years, it starts adding up to real money! LOL
You’ve just identified yourself as a fool and a miscreant. Are you also a politician? I’m just curious.
I have better things to do than converse with the disingenuous.
(As a final point, the X billion per year ‘cost’ of the drug war doesn’t count the harm to the economy, or the lost productivity of those in prison. On of Arnold’s latest initiatives is to spend a whole lot of money on new jails...I wonder why we need so much jail space?)
Yep. Drug abuse has tremendous societal costs.