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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Would you pay for fireworks?
My story about a Hamilton AMVETS chapter contributing towards the city’s Fourth of July fireworks raises some interesting questions.
Chief among these is: Would you contribute money so your community could have fireworks?
And how about this idea: Would you pay admission for fireworks?
A commenter on my story identified as Marvin Berry writes:
“if they do manage to get enough donations, perhaps they should take up a collection at the fireworks to use towards next years. How many people go to the fireworks? if each person put in a buck, maybe we won’t be sweating it out next year?”
I’ve been kicking a similar thought around in my head for awhile now. Does it have to be that hard to raise money, for fireworks? Let’s take, say, Middletown. That city hasn’t had Fourth of July fireworks for years. They’re expensive. They cost about $1,000 a minute. So a half hour’s fireworks show would cost about $30,000.
According to the census, there are about 20,000 households in Middletown. So, theoretically, if every one of these households contributed about $1.50 each - boom - Middletown could have its fireworks.
A Hamilton reader called me and suggested that fireworks could be paid for by adding a surcharge to utility bills - and people told that caller it sounded like a good idea.
Easier said than done? Sure. And there are some people who have the mindset that it’s not their obligation to pay for fireworks.
Perhaps it’s not. But as reaction to my story indicates, some people are thinking differently. Everybody seems to love fireworks. And even in these tough times, $1.50 is pocket change. One of my colleagues even suggested he’d be willing to pay $5 a carload to watch fireworks.
So - bottom line - would you pay for fireworks, either as a community contribution, or as kind of an admission charge?
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