The Million Dollar Bill for British Citizens

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3042421/State-trip-by-Pope-will-cost-UK-12m.html

Taxpayers are going top have to pay a £12 Million bill for Pope Benedict's visit to Britain, which is up to £4 million more than had been thought.
The September's four-day event would be so 'complex' and 'sophisticated'that the price that taxpayer should pay had been underestimated, Lord Patten admitted yesterday.
The Prime Ministers's special representative for the visit said that the Government is now going to have to need £10 to £12 million for the costs, instead of the estimated £8million.
The visit of the pope to Britain will be the very first State visit by a Pope to Britain. It begins on September 16, when he meets the Queen in Edinburgh.
Pope Benedict is first going to visit Glasgow then London and finally Birmingham where he will hold a mass to beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman.


To be honest I think that it's pretty ridiculous that every British citizen has to contribute to coughing up this huge amount of money simply because the English Government wanted pope Benedict to come to England. This visit is related to the Christian religion and there are lots of people who don't have any connection with religion or the Christian Religion at all and I think to force people to pay for an event like this, for something they do not even believe in, is just wrong. I think that it's also a ridiculous amount of money for the trip.