Although inflated government spending for weapons research encourages waste at weapons research laboratories, weapons production plants must be viewed as equally wasteful of taxpayer dollars  After all, by the government' s own admission, the weapons plant it plans to reopen will violate at least 69 environmental, health, and safety laws
The government has decided to reopen the plant and exempt it from compliance, even though the weapons to be produced there could be produced at the same cost at a safer facility
It relies on evidence that does not directly address the issue of wasteful spending.