You wanna talk about a waste of taxpayer money, look at the war on drugs. A government founded movement that spends 51 billion per year and criminalizes people with a serious medical condition. Also to add to that, all the people sent to prison instead of rehabs means prison is always overcrowded and needs more funds furthering wasted taxpayer money. End the war on drugs and start treating addiction like a medical condition and send them to rehab with the newly acquired socialized healthcare. No more crowded prisons and no need to raise taxes.