If corporate profits are worth spending $1.9 trillion on, how much is Trump willing to spend to combat an epidemic that’s taking tens of thousands of lives each year? Eleven billion dollars. That’s all. The Bipartisan Policy Center combed the federal budget and found fifty-seven different federal programs that work to curb the epidemic. All told, they spend $11 billion a year. At that rate, it will take well over a thousand years for Trump’s opioid response to match his corporate tax giveaway. Corporate profits are literally a thousand times more important to Trump than are people dying from
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