[TSUTiger]

At a multimillion dollar cost to taxpayers….

[debesyla]

It's not like the money went away to space - people who got the money spent it on stuff, most likely local services and products, so it returned back.

The real cost to taxpayers was either 0 or an influx of dollars due to slightly boosted local economy, not a loss.

[nhinck2]

Welfare for lower socio-economic groups had a positive ROI.

[JSDevOps]

Blame the consultants and project managers for that one not the participants

[cultofmetatron]

between my taxes currently, funding among all things...

* a sociopathic nation state thats hell bent on bombing and relocating the original inhabants of that land,

* a private prison industry that uses its profits to lobby for more punitive sentences for nonviolent crimes

* a military industrial complex that destabilizes countires around the world

god forbid some small sliver of my tax dollars gets used to give homeless people some dignity and shocker keeping them off the streets which helps increase land value in the properties around where they used to hang out.

[rswskg]

You really need to understand the concept of the peace dividend.