Headline: “Town Spends $1,000 on Rubber Chickens”
And that’s not all:
[Cicero, Illinois] Town President Larry Dominick’s administration has also spent nearly $600,000 on promotional items, including mouse pads and ice cream scoops, from You & Me.
Hanania said he expects proceeds from the Houby Day festival to pay the bill for the chickens.
“It is what it is. We’re not hiding it. We’re trying to be aboveboard,” he said.
His transparency is laudable. But he forgets about opportunity costs. Rubber chickens aren’t exactly revenue magnets. They are unlikely to add more than their cost to Cicero, Illinois’s town coffers. Meanwhile, those thousand dollars could have been put to some better use — schools, police or fire protection, fixing potholes, you name it. Surely those things are more desirable than 250 rubber chickens.
Inertia Wins! 