Canvasback, Your question is loaded with assumptions. I'll start by citing the worst example since the war in Vietnam, namely the invasion of Iraq. You can investigate costs in dollars and lives to suit yourself.The results will be suffered for beyond the foreseeable future. As a positive example, there's Obamacare. It won't get much support on this site, but 20 million Americans now have health insurance who lacked it before, perhaps the majority of them blue collar families who voted for Trump. If Republicans had tried to improve it, it and they'd be in better shape today. But, no, they reflexively detest it because it wasn't their program, even though it really was. Now they're attempting to abolish it entirely despite having no clue what to do next. It they succeed, it will be an electoral disaster for them. Your question hinges on what is acceptable as a reasonable price. As a conservative, perhaps you bring a business orientation to the criterion. I'd remind you, government is not a business. It doesn't exist to show a profit. Nowadays. monetizing and increasing shareholder profit are the only standards applied to most every issue, especially by Republicans.

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