You're fractionally engaging in the broken windows fallacy.
Every time we pay for something that wouldn't have got done otherwise it comes at our expense.
That's not to say that some of these things aren't worth doing. But there are a whole great many things the feds spend money on that aren't worth doing.
If two dollars go to invading some stupid sandbox and one dollar goes to Nasa and the NASA dollar pays back a buck fiddy we're half a dollar poorer at the end of the day.
You're fractionally engaging in the broken windows fallacy.
Every time we pay for something that wouldn't have got done otherwise it comes at our expense.
That's not to say that some of these things aren't worth doing. But there are a whole great many things the feds spend money on that aren't worth doing.
If two dollars go to invading some stupid sandbox and one dollar goes to Nasa and the NASA dollar pays back a buck fiddy we're half a dollar poorer at the end of the day.