Historic Preservation is Worth A Latte? Eh, not so much. February 16, 2009
Posted by history in : Uncategorized , add a commentSo the price tag on the HP component to the stimulus bill was $55 million. What is $55 million between friends? Apparently a lot, HP was eliminated by in the stimulus package. Sigh. You can read all the gory details here. Yeah, $55 million seems like a lot and it is, but when you break it down by the 183 million tax payers in the US (based on 2007 rates). It amounts to about $3.27 per person, which is about the same as one small latte per tax paying citizen, each year. I don’t know about you, but I think HP is worth a latte.
Sadly our elected officals don’t feel the same way.