Your Tax Dollars

[RainDog]

Call it fire money. In Oakland, $50,000 is going to a nonprofit best known for its fiery performance art.

Call it wine money. In Napa County, $54 million is going to protect the tracks on which a train hauls tourists through vineyards as they sip chardonnay.

Call it Indian money. In Sonoma County, $272,578 is going to provide housing assistance to two tribes that reap millions a year from lucrative gambling casinos, including one in Contra Costa County.

Call it nightclub money. In Berkeley, $499,384 is going for field studies of what kind of booze young people pound down in bars and other hot spots.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14087551?source=rss

[StinkerBell]

ridiculous, aint it.

[MushCreek]

Give me $100K and Ill do a whole documentary on how poor rural folk build funky little cabins and live off-grid

[RainDog]

Call it performance art, looks like you might have a shot at a grant for that.

[StinkerBell]

Give me $100K and Ill do a whole documentary on how poor rural folk build funky little cabins and live off-grid

What a marvelous idea!