What is the most expensive thing in the world.

Ignorance breeds ignorance. The tragedy of ignorance is that those who are ignorant of existing facts are too ignorant to understand new facts. Such people are uneducable.

And, you don’t even need to be a MAGA to be that ignorant. Here are excerpts of articles demonstrating irreparable ignorance.

THE WEEK April 1, 2026: WHY UNIVERSAL HEALH CARE ISN’T VIABLE by Ramesh Ponnuru the Washington Post

Medicare-f0r-all is back and it’s still a completely impractical idea. 

Democrats have never generated much support for universal health care, and won’t have an easier time selling it now. Proponents admit national health care would cost upwards of $1 trillion a year and require major tax increases on the middle class.

That is 100% false, a lie promulgated by the rich to widen the Gap between the rich and the rest. The truth: The federal government could increase spending by $1 trillion, or $10 trillion, and not raise taxes by even a penny.

The U.S. government, which created the U.S. dollar from thin air, is Monetarily Sovereign. It has the infinite ability to create dollars by simply pressing computer keys. (See: Do you really think I need your money?)

Who says so? Well, for one:

Beardsley Ruml, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in a speech before the ABA in 1945 (the last year of WWII): “The necessity for a government to tax in order to maintain both its independence and its solvency is true for state and local governments, but it is not true for a national government.

All federal taxes must meet the test of public policy and practical effect. The public purpose which is served should never be obscured in a tax program under the mask of raising revenue.”

And no, contrary to popular myth, federal spending, even big spending, doesn’t cause inflation. All inflation is caused by shortages of crucial goods and services and is cured by government spending to cure the shortages.

Continuing with the THE WEEK article:

Sen. Bernie Sanders argues that savings on insurance premiums and deductibles would cancel out higher taxes, but voters won’t trust that rhetoric.

Heaven help us from our friends. The government neither needs nor uses any sort of savings. It simply would create the necessary dollars as it always does.

National health care would also require removing more than 300 million Americans from employer-provided insurance and individually purchased policies. Would most Americans willingly give up their existing coverage for a new government-run system of unknown cost and quality?

Democrats are on the verge of learning again that the answer is No way.

No reason is given for why national health care would require people to give up other health care. Does the current Social Security make such demands?

This is a weird bogeyman invented by the rich (who own the Washington Post, that formerly good newspaper until it was purchased by a billionaire). 

A free and comprehensive , now-deductible “Medicare for All” program would benefit not only workers but all Americans.

One reason companies provide health insurance is to keep employees tied to their jobs. Currently, millions of workers are trapped in low-paying positions and poor working conditions because their company-provided insurance limits their ability to seek employment elsewhere. 

It should come as no surprise that the author of the nonsensical article, Ramesh Ponnuru, is “a prominent conservative political pundit.” If there is one thing conservatives hate, it’s spending money on anything that aids the lower 90% income earners or narrows the Gap.

So, in his case, the problem may not be pure ignorism. It might also inlcude the typical right wing lack of compassion.

Then, here are excerpts from this article:

Trump prioritizes $1.5T for defense
’27 budget plan calls for trims to domestic programs’ funding
By Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs.

The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some 44%, had been telegraphed by the Republican president before the U.S.-led war against Iran. The president’s plan would also reduce spending on nondefense programs by 10%.

“President Trump promised to reinvest in America’s national security infrastructure, to make sure our nation is safe in a dangerous world,” wrote Budget Director Russell Vought. The president’s annual budget is considered a reflection of the administration’s values.

The administration’s values are:

1. More money for Trump
2. More money for those who can help Trump reap more money
3. More money for others who are rich pals of Trump
4. Less money for those who are not rich

Period.

The massive document typically highlights an administration’s priorities, but Congress, which handles federal spending issues, is free to reject it and often does.

Except for the MAGA-tied robot Congress of today, which seldom rejects Trump’s ideas.

“We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care,” Trump said at a private White House event Wednesday. “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare — all these individual things,” he said. “They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal.”

Anyone who understands government financing knows that while the federal government is never money-constrained, the states, which are monetarily non-sovereign, are quite financially constrained.

But Trump believes in exploiting public ignorance, and sadly, he has been rewarded for it.

Besides military spending, the document released by the White House included other priorities. It maintains current year levels of funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in support of the administration’s deportation operations, and draws on last year’s increases for the Department of Homeland Security funds to continue opening detention facilities, including 100,000 beds for adults and 30,000 for families.

Trump is hoping to put 130,000 people into “detention facilities”, aka concentration camps, similar to the notorious Alligator Alcaraz. There’s plenty of money for building horror jails to house innocent immigrants, but not enough for the health of Americans

There is a 13% increase for the Department of Justice to focus on violent criminals and the president’s promise to stop what the White House calls migrant crime.

Federal and state data show that both legal and illegal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans. 

A $10 billion fund within the National Park Service is sought for “construction and beautification” projects in Washington, D.C.

Trump repeatedly want’s “beautification, aka buildings with his name on them.

The budget also seeks a $481 million increase to enhance aviation safety and support an air traffic controller hiring surge.

A surge that has become necessary because of the Trump/Musk senseless mass-firings of good people, bad people, all people.

The budget also includes Trump’s reduction priorities by canceling more than $15 billion from the Biden-era bipartisan infrastructure law, including funds for renewable energy projects and cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, or NOAA, grants.

Aside from global warming, (which Trump insists doesn’t exist,) and saving the ocean’s animals and plants (who care about them?), there is no reason to worry about renewable energy and the ocean and atmosphere in MAGA world.

There is a 19% cut for the Department of Agriculture, ending certain university grants; a 13% cut for the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and about a 12% decrease to the Health and Human Services department, including cuts to a low-income heating assistance program.

See the pattern? The federal government “can’t afford’ to help anyone except the rich.

The White House is touting cuts of what it calls “woke programs” that often direct federal investments toward lowincome communities. The budget used the word “woke” 34 times. For example, the administration is looking to cut Community Services Block Grants, which fund activities such as financial and job counseling and help people obtain adequate housing.

“Woke” means different things to different people, but in general, it means opposed to racial and sexual bigotry. Because Donald Trump is America’s bigot-in-chief, he naturally opposes anything that benefits anyone who is not a white Christian male billionaire.

The administration says its cuts would target grants “hijacked by radicals” to promote equity-building and green energy initiatives.

The president also seeks to cut $106 million in funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which it says has “pushed radical gender ideology onto children.”

Simply stated, anti-gay laws, because as everyone knows, gays are a greated danger to America than guns.

With the nation running nearly $2 trillion annual deficits and the debt swelling past $39 trillion, the federal balance sheets have long been operating in the red.

Now well understood that economic growth requires the federal government to run a deficit and every time we fail to do so we have recessions and depressions.

Two questions about the above graph of federal debt:

1. When do we have recessions? ANSWER: After a period of reduced federal deficits
2. When do we recover from recessions? ANSWER: After a period of increased federal deficits.
3. When do we have depressions: ANSWER: When the federal government runs a surplus (see below)

U.S. depressions come on the heels of federal surpluses.

1804-1812: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 48%. Depression began 1807.
1817-1821: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 29%. Depression began 1819.
1823-1836: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 99%. Depression began 1837.
1852-1857: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 59%. Depression began 1857.
1867-1873: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 27%. Depression began 1873.
1880-1893: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 57%. Depression began 1893.
1920-1930: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 36%. Depression began 1929.
1997-2001: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 15%. Recession began 2001.

The answer to the title question — What is the most expensive thing in the world? 

The Answer: Ignorance. We pay for it in many ways every day. Our own ignorance and the ignorance of others.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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