How Much Money Did the NYPD Waste Quashing Student Protests? We Tallied It Up.
How Much Money Did the NYPD Waste Quashing Student Protests? We Tallied It Up.
NYPD’s raid on Columbia University’s student protest likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The crackdown will end up costing millions.
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When money comes from the taxpayers and goes to people who are friends with the money-allocating decision maker people, it's not a "waste," from the decision makers' point of view.
Also applies to "expensive" wars, and also does a lot to explain why funding schools or the USPS is hard but funding the military is super easy. It's not a cost; it's a big ol' haystack of cash that fell from the sky, and we gotta do that again real soon, man.
Maybe an addendum for wars is there are 95,000+ public schools and 19 large defense contractors. Funneling the money to the few is our (stupid) american way.