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Re:Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says by efitz on Friday August 07, 2020 @08:55PM (#24088011)
"This is bigger than that" or "this is smaller than that" are not particularly useful comparisons. I could use the same tactic to make the budget seem overblown.

The budget for the US federal judiciary is bigger than the GDP of 64 countries[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

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Re:Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says by dralley on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:39PM (#24088235)
You neglect to mention that most of those countries are islands with a couple tens of thousands of residents.

The population of NYC may well be 5x higher than the combined populations of all of those countries.

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Re:Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says by oehtXRwMkIs on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:43PM (#24088259)
That is exactly their point.
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Re:Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says by emn13 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @05:02AM (#24090207)
The point is pretty incoherent then, because they're proving that indeed it's reasonable for the federal judiciary to have a larger budget and thus not demonstrating that comparing budgets leads to absurdity.
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Re:Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says by emn13 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @05:09AM (#24090221)
That's not a convincing argument, because it's pretty reasonable for a several orders of magnituge wealthier country to outspend a smaller economy on all kinds of stuff (including their entire GDP).

Do you have a better example?

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