I think it is legitimate for civic governments to spend money on the following:

• transportation, for cars, cyclists and pedestrians. This includes roads and bridges.
• Sewers and water.
• Police and fire protection.
• Recreational centres.
• Public fireworks displays.
• Neighbourhood summer festivals.

It should not spend on the following:

• churches.
• professional sports, especially subsidising sports stadiums. Professional sports is highly profitable and those who support them tend to be fairly well off. The poor should not be subsidising them.
• Opera. The people who support opera are extremely well off. It is unfair to ask people much less wealthy, who cannot afford tickets, to subsidise them.

My rule is, the city should only spend on the population as a whole, not just some privileged group.

~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)