Lucifer in the flesh.

What do you think it cost to run a court? To research a case? For every hour spent in a Federal courthouse, hundreds of hours of preparation went into it ,on both sides. Since the argument came down to Tejas vs the U.S., taxpayers footed both bills.

Govt. workers are govt workers, are they billing separately or something? They're working anyway, that's their job, there are no separate billable hours. Unless I'm missing something.
Those are just numbers thrown out there to make it appear that it is actually costing people money. The exact same money is spent on those workers no matter what case they're working on. I'm sure there' might be some contracted work done, but I highly doubt it's anything close to what the numbers claim.

Oh and the court is running now matter the case as well.

Yes, you are missing something.
I suppose you think the wars in the Middle East don't cost us anything. Those soldiers would be getting paid anyways.
That's a boilerman argument. I thought better of you.

Oh no, no, no. The cost of war is actually real in costs.You once asked me "are you that dense?" Well now I must ask you the same thing. Private contractors are paid in actual dollars. DO you think Boeing, Lockheed and others donate their weapons? The cost of weapons, hardware, ammo,humvees, etc., etc. are not free Those are tangible costs while soldiers pay does remain the same (I think they get hazard pay tho?). Comparing war time costs to a lawsuit is just what I said it was. Haven't you kept up on the bitching about a trillion dollar war by the lefties? No. Soldier and normal military operating costs are pretty static. Are you really that dense?

It's your arguement that's a boiler arguement.

Billy, please let LVA readers know when I ever led you to believe that.

Lucifer is one of my favorite new TV shows.