Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
I doubt that very much of your taxes go to pay for it; as a former civil servant (US National Park Ranger) who worked at a historical/genealogical site, that we're pretty low on the totem pole when it comes to funding -- that seems to be pretty much universal.

Whenever a visitor would make a comment such as this one, I would sometimes say:
I used to be a fish biologist. While on the way to work one morning, I saw a marquee hiring night manager for a video store, the pay was $7,000 more than what I made. We have a running joke that we are the 53 lowest paid state in the union.