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$199,999 - $160,000 = $39,999. Still a net benefit to the taxpayers of New York City Gawker, good work!

Incidentally, J.K., "tax payer money" is an awful corporatist trope meant to conflate citizenship with investing and is the product of a coordinated, decades long propaganda campaign by right wing think tanks to tie government accountability to taxable income — all while implicitly trivializing the demands of non taxpayers (see: poor and vulnerable) and cementing, via a careless media, a go-to outrage trigger every time Uncle Sam spends money on something angry white males don't like or understand.

So, do me a solid: if you insist on demagoguing, at least demagogue from the left by illustrating this wasteful egotrip in terms corey3rd did.

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J.K. TrotterJohnMcClanesSmirk
9/16/13 7:26pm
Yes, that was the point! Bloomberg is exactly the sort of technocratic figure who would resort to such tropes! That’s what makes this particular expenditure funny!
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JohnMcClanesSmirkJ.K. Trotter
9/16/13 7:39pm
Don't mock my misplaced sense of self-seriousness.

That money would have been wasted on the salaries of 3 teachers.

For some perspective, that's 160,000 x Bloomberg's annual salary as Mayor.

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Sergio HernandezDailyTrix
9/16/13 2:29pm
For some more perspective: it was also pretty much the cost of my undergraduate journalism degree. WHOO.