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by thesuitonym 418 days ago
$50 is about $7 per American. Could MITRE be more efficient? Yeah maybe. Probably, even. But cutting off funding entirely isn't the way to make it happen. This decision isn't about saving the American taxpayer money, it's about weaking the US, and it serves exactly one person.
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There are 150M taxpayers in the US… so $50M is about 33 cents per American…

Unless you know something I don’t.

$50M divided over ~350M people is around 15 cents per citizen per year. Did you use an odd number of Australian signs in your math?
I honestly am not sure what I did. Definitely missed a few zeroes!