I think we should all write in and suggest that the Boy Scouts get free health care, too. After all, they are so nice and positive and all... we should "...honor this organization and what it stands for..." out of the PUBLIC coffers. </sarc>
OTOH, some of us would rather our taxes go down...and those people who want to donate to the Boy Scouts can do so, but those of us who can't even afford our own real estate shouldn't be forced to subsidize the Boy Scouts'.
Besides...
From the article...
Unlike the scouts, public officials are also bound by a line of Supreme Court opinions barring taxpayer support of any group that discriminates.
In Philadelphia, officials wrestled for months for a way to let the scouts remain at their longtime headquarters.
(However, I'm not certain the SCOTUS opinions are as clear on "discriminates" (with regard to homosexuals) as they want the reader to believe. Anyone have details?)
Sounds like these guys wrestled more about what to charge them than anything else. Yeah, right. $199,000 in rent from $1.00. That’s quite a difference.
How about all of the government people who get free rent for favors and how about people like the Clintons who have lived off us most of their lives?
We can be a charatible people; and I would rather it go for something like the Boy Scouts instead of the graft that the Congress puts in their pockets. That is, of course, the money they steal from us.