Posted on 09/10/2011 10:53:17 AM PDT by lowbridge
It might not cost a hefty $25 to get into the 9/11 museum after all.
With prodding from Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, a bill was introduced in Congress yesterday to provide $20 million a year in operating funds to the museum.
That would be enough to cover at least one-third of its estimated $50 million to $60 million in yearly expenses once it opens on Sept. 11, 2012.
Museum officials disclosed earlier this year that they’d have to impose an admission charge to pay the bills, like most every other national memorial museum.
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Wow, are they burning diamonds to run that museum? How does it cost 50 million to run a museum?
Why it will cost so much, this is not Disney World ?
Something is seriously wrong. Are they planning to give job to special group?
I hope they just hire family members of effected families. Not a job program for some vote bank group.
Its in New York. And the museums 5-10 employees will probably be union and have a generous pension plan. /sarcasm
Come on be fair, there has to be atleast a one to one graft component in anything in that city, perhaps more in bad times.
I'm sorry, I don't see how it should cost $25 to view a museum, unless the city is charging them prime rent for the area. None of my hard earned $ to these two ah-oles from NY.
Hold the phone....This summer I paid $25 to tour Ripley’s Believe It Or Not with my grandchildren...a much less valuable property yet as important occasion for me cuz I get to see my grandchildren once, maybe twice a year and do stuff with them.
Were I to go to New York with them...$25 is NOT to big a price tag to see the beautiful property and memorial this is going to be. $20/M/yr for the fifteen or so years I have left is $300/million. I want to know who gets this money.
And isn’t this property part of the new tower complex that will be making $billions in rent for the owners?
I doubt I’ll even get to see the museum, but now I have to pay for others to see it?
How about this damn gub mint quit spending MY MONEY
Two major reasons:
1 - Astoundingly high taxes to finance the biggest Nanny State welfare system in the country.
2 - Astronomical labor costs.
Everything in NY City costs several times as much as it would elsewhere because everything must be priced to pay inflated union wages to an inflated union work force.
Wherever there is cash flow the unions have weaseled their way in and loaded the operation with overpriced union labor.
In NY City even doormen, elevator operators and floor sweepers are union.
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