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by paxys 1842 days ago
$25 million went to research that produced a life-saving vaccine and averted (or at least abated) a global crisis. Meanwhile the F-35 program at a lifetime cost of $1.7 trillion has produced basically nothing.

People's biggest criticism of taxation is all the government corruption and wastage that it enables, and IMO that is completely valid.