Quote:
Originally Posted by oilers_fan
Except it was taxpayers paying for the funeral initially, how do they benefit from more hotel rooms being rented, or restaurants being eaten at? The balance sheet might be kosher, but I don't think things really even out for those paying the tab.
|
Taxpayers paying for it? Ya, through government expenditures out of government coffers, the same government coffers into which the hotel taxes are deposited. I don't know the numbers for the taxes in the area, but it's not really that hard to figure out that the money going out was at least partially offset by money coming in.