Those new city halls, government facilities, top shelf security, and all those government workers with killer salaries, benefits, and pensions require that money. With tax time quickly approaching, just quietly give up the money and don't complain.
I read an article a few weeks back where it stated that some of these higher end government employees, have city/state paid cars with *chauffeurs*! His title was the director of sanitation of some freaking thing.
They are suppose to be civil servants.
Who approved the budgets of these entities?