Jackson Funeral Costs Los Angeles Tax Payers At Least $4M

The City Of Los Angeles claims the funeral for Michael Jackson cost taxpayers at least $4M. It is probably close to double that amount because, hey these are politicians. The city, like the state itself is very deep in debt. I mean we are the joke of the world because of the amount of debt we have. The State Of California which, if it were a country would be the 10th largest economy in the world is writing IOU's to people and businesses. Just pieces of paper, and yet the tax payers are being asked to foot the bill.

Here is the thing. I actually don't mind paying for some of it. The world was focused on Los Angeles and I think because of this that tourist revenues will increase and thus tourism taxes and so I am ok for paying a portion of it. However, with that being said, I think that The Jackson Family and AEG need to foot some of this bill also.

You may have heard that there were 17,000 people at the funeral at Staples Center yesterday. But, about half of those were people personally invited by The Jackson family. So, in essence the City is paying for their funeral. If they wanted to invited 9,000 people they could have invited them to Neverland but then they would have had to pay the bill. This way they got the City and by the City, I mean me and everyone else who lives here.

Now, as far as AEG goes, they own Staples Center so there was no cost to them for that. Yes, they had employees who worked and they probably paid for those people. However, this is the company that was putting on the Michael Jackson shows in London and I think if they can afford to pay Michael all that money to perform, they can probably pay a portion of the $4M. I'm not asking the Jacksons and AEG to pay for all of the funeral, but if they invited half the guests, I think they should pay for half of the cost. Fair?

I also want to say that looking back over the comments about the gloves yesterday in the photos that it was tacky and so I apologize for that.