One of the things Americans fail to understand, because nobody tells them and politicians don't want them to know, is that the government can spend $10k on someone or something now (e.g., UBI, healthcare) and save itself hundreds of thousands in the future -- or even "profit" in the sense of higher productivity and tax revenues.
Instead, we live in a country that insists on spending $150 million on cops to prevent $104,000 in lost subway fares.
@gwynnion It's the same with illegal drugs. Imagine them making some of these drugs (like marijuana) legal for use like alcohol is, and then using the tax money to actually help the healthcare system or heck, using it to help people with other types of drug addictions!
That would actually help not only with citizens being overall better off, but it can generate tax revenue, increase research into new treatments, and it can make the need for these illegal drug busts less and less necessary!
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