Wednesday - March 28, 2007
Lawyers Suck
A think tank in San Francisco claims that lawyers are a burden to society at a cost of $985 billion a year.
Those figures reminded me of this song by the Random Brothers. Turn up the volume!The U.S. legal system imposes a cost of $985 billion a year on the U.S. economy, or $9,800 a family, a San Francisco "free-market" think tank reports.
The costs associated with civil lawsuits, and the fear of them, is 27 times more than the federal government spends on homeland security; 30 times what the National Institutes of Health dedicates to biomedical research; and 13 times the amount the U.S. education department spends to educate children, the Pacific Research Institute says.
The institute's "Jackpot Justice" study is the first to calculate both the U.S. legal system's direct and indirect costs, study author Lawrence McQuillan says.
Author: The Machiavellian
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