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Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown by throwaway0a5e on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:33AM (#24588713)
There are a lot of people on HN that would take serious issue with any implication that any given tax dollar has anything less than a net-neutral effect for the taxpayers as a whole.

Oddly they seem to keep really quite when the topic of the war on drugs comes up.

Re:179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown by X6S1x6Okd1st on Friday September 25, 2020 @03:39PM (#24593372)
To be fair saying something is not profitable doesn't mean that it isn't a net-benefit for the country.

I personally don't think that our current approach to drugs produces a net-benefit, but figuring out the true effects of alternatives is really not simple at all.