"one all too common consequence of spending other people’s money is failure to think ahead. a telling example can be found in san jose, whose unified school district approved the purchase of a $725,000 pizza machine it claimed would “churn out 800 pizzas a day to sell on various campuses in the district.” in reality, the machine reportedly produced only 2,000 pizzas in two years due to frequent breakdowns, which works out to roughly $360 per pizza. (caltax jokes that they hope the kids “got extra cheese and generous toppings.) what’s worse, the san jose school district eventually took pizza off its menus completely when it realized there weren’t enough trucks to deliver pizza to different campuses, all of which had the same rigidly enforced lunch time. the machine is mostly retired at prese"
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