> When I read we spent $1B, I think about how I'm responsible for $3 of that.

I like to think about how providing 4-week paid parental leave would cost $2 billion annually and actually help US families. Meanwhile we have spent over $100 billion on this war.

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toephu2 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

California already more or less provides 8 weeks of paid parental leave (PFL program).

	▲	5upplied_demand 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That is great, unfortunately almost 90% of the country lives in a state other than California.

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joenot443 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My back of napkin figures gave me about $20-40b. I'm curious how you got to the $2 billion number?

	▲	5upplied_demand an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm curious about your napkin math, care to share? I got mine from a paper published by the University of Chicago: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735565.
	▲	adityashankar 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		How do you even estimate that, human productivity is non linear to worktime and often, employees, when given good benefits are likely to be more productive. also there's the fact of this having a ROI since people generate economic value in the longer run, and hence, more taxes

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milkytron an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Considering the push for reproduction from this admin and his technocrats, I'm curious if they would consider something like this.

	▲	5upplied_demand an hour ago \| parent [-]
		One would think, but the flip-side is that this supports more women in the workforce. Traditional roles of men working and women caring for kids seems like a bigger priority of this admin. I do think it is a policy point that Democrats should absolutely be hammering them on. This is pro-worker and pro-family at very low cost.

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lazide 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So far….

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CMay 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

The cost of not having this war could have been 8 trillion and countless lives, or some arbitrarily huge number. Many of the actions taken this year are directly intended to curb the possible events that could lead to World War 3. Iran is directly connected to all of that.

Seems like money well spent.

	▲	5upplied_demand 22 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> the possible events that could lead to World War 3. Iran is directly connected to all of that. If any event has pushed us closer to WW3 it is the US's decision to preemptively attack Iran. > Seems like money well spent. Based on what outcome? The regime is still intact, if not stronger. They are likely more resolute in wanting a nuclear weapon, as we almost certainly wouldn't have attacked them if they had one. They have validated their control over the Straight of Hormuz and it's impact on our economy.
	▲	Hikikomori 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hundreds of billions spent on a war you lost and best case scenario is going back to the deal Obama made. Money well spent indeed.