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jimnyc
11-24-2011, 08:16 AM
And who do you think will pay this money, the top 1%? Or maybe the occupiers themselves? Nope, the everyday workers in the 99% who aren't sitting in a park gathering dirt and breaking laws!


NEW YORK — During the first two months of the nationwide Occupy protests, the movement that is demanding more out of the wealthiest Americans cost local taxpayers at least $13 million in police overtime and other municipal services, according to a survey by The Associated Press.

The heaviest financial burden has fallen upon law enforcement agencies tasked with monitoring marches and evicting protesters from outdoor camps. And the steepest costs by far piled up in New York City and Oakland, Calif., where police clashed with protesters on several occasions.

The AP gathered figures from government agencies in 18 cities with active protests and focused on costs through Nov. 15, the day protesters were evicted from New York City's Zuccotti Park, where the protests began Sept. 17 before spreading nationwide. The survey did not attempt to tally the price of all protests but provides a glimpse of costs to cities large and small.

Broken down city by city, the numbers are more or less in line with the cost of policing major public events and emergencies. In Los Angeles, for example, the Michael Jackson memorial concert cost the city $1.4 million. And Atlanta spent several million dollars after a major snow and ice storm this year.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/occupy-costs-13Million-taxpayers/2011/11/23/id/419015

red states rule
11-24-2011, 08:19 AM
And who do you think will pay this money, the top 1%? Or maybe the occupiers themselves? Nope, the everyday workers in the 99% who aren't sitting in a park gathering dirt and breaking laws!



http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/occupy-costs-13Million-taxpayers/2011/11/23/id/419015

and the biggest losers will be the taxpayers in NY and CA

The biggest blue states with the highest taxes. I hope the libs are enjoying their states being trashed by the hippies while they pick up the tab