Brickbat: Highway Robbery
The state of Missouri named an interstate overpass in Wentzville for U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, who was killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Then, it sent his parents a $3,200 bill for the new signs. State lawmakers are considering legislation that would stop billing families of military members and first responders for whom roads and bridges are named. The Schmitz family was able to raise the funds to pay for the signs honoring him.
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Next…naming 100 memorial bridges after Elon Musk.
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No good deed by the government never goes unpunished, There’s always a price.
You have one too many negatives in that sentence.
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_good_deed_goes_unpunished
That’ll cost you $3,200.
So can I pay for an interchange to be named after anyone I chose? The TJ McVeigh Memorial Interchange has a nice ring to it.
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There seems to be some important context missing from this article. If, as I first assumed, the DoT was asking families to pay for honors assigned by the legislature, that’s pretty despicable.
If, however, the DoT is really just saying than bridge naming rights are for sale and if the family was the entity asking for the naming, well, I don’t see a problem with making people pay for their own vanity, even when it’s nominally in the name of a loved one.
Seriously, if they were selling naming rights $3200 is too low. The signs really do cost a good fraction of that, and “fair market value” is much higher. Even non-famous public universities typically charge $20-30K to name a classroom, $200-$300K to name an auditorium or small plaza, $10M for a building, $20-30M to name a college of business, a stadium, or the like.
Nobody in government is capable of running a business.
Which is why they are in government. Just gotta show up and send out the invoices.
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Ok, this story is bullshit. No one is being billed for having something named after them without *asking* that it be named – and there should have been clear indications that this was a paid thing.
So this is a highly misleading brickbat.
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