California governor Newsom vetoes bill to make free condoms available for high school students, citing cost

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California governor vetoes bill to make free condoms available for high school students, citing cost
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Your numbers are way off but the point stands haha

They’re not if you consider the cost of funding a whole state’s worth of condoms vs the cost of dealing with unwanted children in the foster care system, then the legal system when some of those children grow up to be criminals after society has failed them.

It’s actually much higher than that.

It’s actually much higher than that.

Yes that's what I was getting at.

Sorry, I just switched Lemmy clients and i responded to the wrong comment. My reply was meant for the ‘condoms cost less than $500’ comment in this thread.

I agree with you.

(And then I just responded to myself instead of you. I think I need to clear my cache.)

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Are there numbers way off? I paid tens of thousands of dollars in taxes last year which is only possible because my parents had access to food stamps when I was a kid. Over a lifetime it could definitely work out to half a million.

It could definitely work out to half a million.

Pretty sure it's a lot more than that. Food stamps aren't the only expense.

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