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Off Topic => Off Topic - Ideas, humor, inspiration => Topic started by: RainDog on January 03, 2010, 05:35:44 PM

Title: Your Tax Dollars
Post by: RainDog on January 03, 2010, 05:35:44 PM

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

Title: Re: Your Tax Dollars
Post by: StinkerBell on January 03, 2010, 07:14:56 PM
ridiculous, aint it.
Title: Re: Your Tax Dollars
Post by: MushCreek on January 04, 2010, 04:16:26 PM
Give me $100K and Ill do a whole documentary on how poor rural folk build funky little cabins and live off-grid d*
Title: Re: Your Tax Dollars
Post by: RainDog on January 04, 2010, 04:32:11 PM

Call it performance art, looks like you might have a shot at a grant for that.
Title: Re: Your Tax Dollars
Post by: StinkerBell on January 04, 2010, 07:16:41 PM
Quote from: MushCreek on January 04, 2010, 04:16:26 PM
Give me $100K and Ill do a whole documentary on how poor rural folk build funky little cabins and live off-grid d*


What a marvelous idea!