Here's a fascinating example of tax dollars at work - Vegas style.
If you haven't heard, Las Vegas is opening a mob museum.
Not to glorify the mob, city officials there say, but to tell its history in Las Vegas.
The museum is to receive $300,000 to buy mob artifacts.
Some pieces would presuambly be owned by collectors.
Others, most likely, would be owned by, well, the mobsters themselves.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal gives you all the details here:
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They actually sell a lot of that so-called "mob memoriabilia" on Ebay. They might still have some of Tony Spilotro's things on there. They once had a ring with "TS" on it that supposedly was Spilotro's and a whole bunch of other morbid crap owned by murderous gangsters.
We live in fascinating, violent, culture. People have always been infatiuated with power and cruelty, hence Hitler and other world conquerers, so long as they're not at the other end of their wrath.
Just what this world needs - a shrine to dirtbags, grafters, junkies, second story men, and confidence men. At least it isn't in Chicago. This also proves what a classy piece of work Oscar Goodman is.