Yakuzaice on 08 January 2012
| thranx said: what the deficit at now? Could we cover it by just dropping the war on drugs? I am not sure, 2.5 trillion is a lot of dollars |
Haha, nowhere close. Going by the numbers in the OP, if we hadn't spent a penny on the drug war over the past 40 years (and hadn't spent it on something else), the national debt would be about 16.4% lower. Although, that figure might be including money spent at all levels, not just federal (which means the percentage would be far lower). The federal drug war spending only amounts to 0.4% of federal spending or 1.2% of the annual deficit.
