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You've said that concentrating testing on the Pro/Elite ranks is pointless, about which we disagree. What you haven't said is how you would pay for a similar testing regime to be applied to the other 99.99% (or 99.999999995% on your figures), and what the point of such a costly exercise would be. UK Anti-Doping spends about £1.5M p.a. on testing, you're asking for a 10,000 fold (or 20,000,000,000 fold on your figures) increase to £15bn (£30 trillion) p.a.
Or maybe you meant the £1.5M current spend is wasted? Well, obviously the right wing nutter in my house thinks it's wrong that this is funded from general taxation, but as a proportion of professional sportsmen's earnings it's a drop in the ocean (about 0.1% levy on just Premiership soccer players would more than cover it) so it should not be rocket science to get the players to fund it.