I Just Find This Funny

The government will pay for famous people's funerals, let them go free when they drunkenly mow someone down with their car and kill them (see:  Donte Stallworth), acquit them of accidently shooting an unarmed limo driver (see:  Jason Williams), give them a slap on the wrist for running over someone while driving drunk (see:  Lindsay Lohan, Halle Berry), or just plain ol' let em get away with murder (see:  OJ Simpson) and producing/participating in child pornography and statutory rape (see:  R. Kelly). 

But if you're some broke schmoe who gets hit by a city bus while crossing the street, your poor relatives, family members and friends are stuck with footing the bill for your funeral and services. They get to go broke paying for casket or urn, for the cremation, for the wake and the funeral home and all of that bullshit. But if you're the King of Pop, the City of Los Angeles will put up $1.4 MILLION for your memorial service. Michael Jackson dies, taxpayers get boned.