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Originally Posted by nomadking
The cost of things like security and Government/State meetings should be taxpayer funded, but events such as the proposed Mass are like a political event and shouldn't be taxpayer funded.
He received more votes to become Pope than Gordon Brown did in order to become PM.
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Should the taxpayer have footed the bill for security when Michelle Obama visited a secondary school in Islington? After all, that was a blatant piece of PR. She isn't even a member of the US government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7980012.stm