If by 40% you mean state military expenditure, it's worth pointing out that this mostly just gets wasted.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/706940883845906432 …
@TACJ Another example, antitobacco campaigns. I hate tobacco, it clearly causes terrible mortality & morbidity, it killed my dad, and yet...
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@TACJ It's not clear that the anti campaign has been a net public good: tobacco increases productivity, tobacco users cost society *less*... -
@TACJ ...because they die relatively quickly. But tobacco settlements have been a huge profit center for states. -
@St_Rev That's really an argument about definitions of public health. You could institute Logan's Run and kill everyone off aged 30...
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