Bloomberg Shoves Another Stick Up our Butt on His Way Out The Door

[nybbler]

The way the museums are nominally free (by law) and then they shake you down anyway is disgusting; it's too bad Bloomberg resolved it the wrong way, but what do you expect from a billionaire? (Fortunately I have a billionaire paying for my admissions too; my employer has a corporate membership. But it still ticks me off)

[Kefir King]

Originally Posted by bluedog2

Maybe from you.I think the problem has arisen because not everyone's offering or no offering gets treated the same.

Well, I can only speak from my own experience.

[Kefir King]

Museums get most if their art in the form of bequests, these bequests represent charitable deductions from owed taxes generally on the very rich. If the public did not forgive these taxes, museums would find their galleries filled with a lot of nothing.
So in essence every museum and its benefactors has their taxes paid by the public.
The presumption has to be that the public should not pay to see the artwork that it is subsidizing.

This amount is FAR in excess of the forgiven rent on the land or any direct City or State grants that museums trot out as "trivial."

[checkmatechamp13]

SMH. Most people would want to be remembered for the positive things they did, not do stuff like this on the way out.

[Kefir King]

Most people do not do positive things so they try to cover up their greed when they're dead.
And they even try avoid taxes from the grave.

[nightcrawler]

when exactly does bloomie leave office?

[bluedog2]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

when exactly does bloomie leave office?

January 1