It was never about making the country peaceful or stopping al qaeda (though I’m sure there were realpolitik reasons, such as staving off Russian influence).
To Recap: that $90MM mostly came from the 99% and 60% of it is now permanently in the hands of the 1%. We definitely don't have a modern day Robin Hood.
You have the salary of the people who do the work. Then the salary of the people who do the oversight, management, accounting, project management, training, compliance etc.
So your $30MM in costs + $60MM in overhead (ie 200% which is sadly typical) and you are not even counting the %7 profit that can be baked in on top of the overhead numbers.
Is that really surprising? The 1% still pays ~38% of taxes by the way.
> We definitely don't have a modern day Robin Hood.
And we shouldn't. Stealing from the rich is still stealing.
They also have 40% of the wealth, so I think that's pretty reasonable.
I was speaking of "modern day Robin Hood" as a concept. It is implemented via taxes, but this whole example shows how flawed it is. Also who are you? the Robin Hood story characterizes Robin Hood as the hero because the rich were taking money in bad and terrorizing ways. If you want to take my robin hood concept literally, then take my example of the rich implementing programs and policies as literally terrorizing too.
The purpose of taxes isn't to take from the rich and give to the poor.
> Also who are you?
Huh? I'm nobody, why are you asking?
Mission accomplished.
Western countries collectively do the same thing again and again in Iraq, Libya, Syria (these are obvious list) and ....
edit:fix typo