If Sept. 11 is your birthday, will you get in free?

[TigerVols]

$25 ticket fee for the Ground Zero memorial proposed.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/05/911-museum-hopes-for-federal-funds/UPI-67631309888572/

 

[DanOregon]

$60 mil a year? On top of initial costs upward to $500 million? Really?

 

[LongTimeListener]

If we don't continue our tradition of turning good ideas into taxpayer boondoggles filled with overpaid political patronage jobs, the terrorists have won.

 

[playthrough]

For Pete's sake.

As the story suggests, make it a voluntary-donation thing. Virtually no one would ignore a voluntary box once allowed in for free, and they'd likely donate more than just spare pennies. But charging $25 immediately cuts off huge numbers of people.

 

[Clerk Typist]

No museum is needed, just a memorial. A free memorial.

In other news, UPI is still around?

 

[Point of Order]

But all proceeds go to pay down the debt.