it costs more money to enforce the law than to refill the shoplifted items

@twinkle it costs more money — and far more importantly, more human time and energy — to enforce fares than to make the train free

it costs more to means-test than to give everyone assistance

to keep feeding the insurance industry than to give everyone free healthcare

@[email protected] in the album No Gods No Managers by ska-punk band Choking Victim they do a little monologue about that between songs