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Cost of the War on Drugs$s Billions
Year `89 `90 `91 `92 `93 `94 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Stolen 148 154 160 168 176 184 2 Incarceration 73 80 88 96 104 112 3 Lost taxes 41 43 45 47 49 51 4 Construction 20 21 23 25 25 25 5 Federal War 7 10 12 13 20 25 6 Extra Welfare 13 14 15 16 17 18 7 Harrassment 10 11 12 13 14 15 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Totals 312 333 355 378 405 430 Reagan's 8 years: $1.860 Trillion Bush's 4 years: $1.378 Trillion Notes
Ohter costs: Lost productivity of perpetrators. Cost of lives lost to drug associated crime, plus productivity and taxes associated with those lives. Does "lost taxes" include lost sales taxes from supposed legal prices of drugs? End |