If you count the Citi bailout, our total Wall Street welfare costs are more than $4.6 trillion. This is more than all the programs below
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• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion
Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million
Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion
Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion
Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est)
Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b
Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion
Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion
Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billionTOTAL: $3.92 trillion
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