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		icebraining on June 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight If we could, how much would the average life that was lost on september 11th be valued? In the billions? The average was $3.1M per civilian victim and $4.2M per emergency responder, totalling $10.6 billion in compensation. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9087/index1.html

duaneb on June 30, 2015 [–]

That's just the up-front cost. The resulting political shockwaves (resulting in, confusingly, two invasions) would cost the taxpayer around ~6 trillion.

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