Fishing for Tax Dollars

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis

CBS Evening News’ Sharyl Attkisson reports on an earmark for the wealthy Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

This project is listed in the 2008 Congressional Pig Book:

$1,648,850 for the Shedd Aquarium by Senate appropriator Richard Durbin (D-Ill), Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), House appropriator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.). The aquarium’s website says the facility was a “gift to the people of Chicago from John Graves Shedd, president and chairman of the board of Marshall Fields & Company.” This aquarium receives 2 million visitors per year and has 36 corporate benefactors. At the end of 2004 (the last year for which information is available), the aquarium had a fund balance of approximately $200 million. Those are some liquid assets.

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2 Responses to “Fishing for Tax Dollars”

  1. Ray J. Acosta, Sr., on May 21st, 2008 at 1:55 pm Said:

    America is being sold down the drain by crooked politicians like these!
    When are we going to find candidates that really care about putting our country ahead of their greedy self interests?

  2. Heroic John McCain scares the stuffing out of Washington’s cockroaches! (Why they must be running scared edition!) He’s my HERO! (and I bet he’s going to take on those slums up in Chicago too, and those bad guys that have profited off th, on July 1st, 2008 at 3:04 pm Said:

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