Originally Posted by
ScepticalOptomist
The data differs from your sums. The stats are freely available on government websites. I won’t do the work for you.
"I don't know." would have saved you a few keystrokes.
The utter implausibility of your "orders of magnitude" claim is easily demonstrated. Using $5 million as the value of a statistical life and a notional 35,000 lives saved, the mitigation expenditure would be $175 billion. When you raise that figure by "orders of magnitude" you get a minimum of $17.5 trillion. That is over ten times our annual GDP.
The total aggregated calendar year expenditure for all levels of government - federal, states and territories, and local - does not exceed $1 trillion.
See the problem?