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citrablue | 6 years ago

Is that a lot, or a little, when compared to the cost of providing the service? Without context, this number is meaningless.

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mandelbrotwurst|6 years ago

It doesn't cost $42M to make a CSV file available.

citrablue|6 years ago

Is your argument that a CSV file of everyone's data should be publicly accessible? Because that's not what I understand the fee to cover; it covers extra personnel to field and review the requests, computer systems to process it, paper to print it out. It probably also covers supervisors time, office space, printers.

Like most government spending, I'm sure it's excessive. However, I'm not clear what your counter-point was. Yes, producing a CSV costs less than $42M. No, producing a CSV file is not what this service entails.