(BigGovernment.news) If you ever doubted the financial impact that Left-wing ideology has on the price of government, this should clear things up for you.

Socialist New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t satisfied with shoving his transgender agenda down everyone’s throat; he wants to make New Yorkers pay a heavy price for it as well.

As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, de Blasio’s new advertisements telling New Yorkers that they can use any bathroom they “identify” with is costing taxpayers $265,000, money that could no doubt be much better spent on any number of needs in the Big Apple.

The WFB notes further:

The “Look past pink and blue” campaign ads with transgender individuals are being plastered across the city, on the subway, in bus stops, phone booths, local television, and on social media. The ads will also appear in Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Russian, and Bengali newspapers.

“Use the restroom consistent with who you are,” the ads read. “In NYC, it’s the law. No questions asked.” The campaign is using the hashtag #BeYouNYC. 

The New York Commission on Human Rights said it is the first-ever government ad campaign in the United States on bathroom use.

“No one deserves to be denied access to bathrooms or discriminated against for being who they are,” de Blasio said. “Every New Yorker has the legal right to use the bathroom consistent with their gender identity, no questions asked—and these powerful ads affirm this right.”

Actually, Mr. Mayor, no one deserves to be billed for outrageous political advocacy, especially when they can ill-afford to be and when the city otherwise has limited resources for its most basic needs.

For de Blasio in personally, however, being a spendthrift kind of guy is nothing new. He’s up to his eyeballs in debt, despite earning a quarter of a million dollars a year, getting free food, medical care and housing.

But the point is well-taken: When it comes to advancing their radical agendas, Left-wing politicians have no problem wasting valuable taxpayer dollars in doing so. What de Blasio is doing in New York City is just a microcosm of what ails the nation as a whole: Big government lefties’ insatiable appetite for our tax dollars.

For years some members of Congress and watchdog groups have detailed wasteful government spending and fraud, but nothing ever changes. Each year the federal budget grows, the national debt expands, and government waste, fraud and abuse is never curbed.

Like, ever.

Politicians are always finding new and creative ways to spend our money on frivolous and often politically-motivated things, while the really important stuff – national defense, infrastructure, education – get shortchanged.

Can you imagine what de Blasio’s ridiculous activism would have cost the nation if he were president?

It has got to stop. At some point a majority of Americans will be heard on such matters, and the gravy train will run dry for these fools in D.C. and around the country who think everything you earn, in some way, belongs to them.

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