Both The Whig and Clint have been commenting, indeed defending, the great volumes of taxpayer money pumping into our past Prime Ministers.

On The Whig I've been patiently explainging to good old Aaron Bhatnager in the follow-up comments just what the libertarian perspective is on all of this..

Keeping up appearances? I want to keep down appearances! Let these dimming menaces fund their own parades now. We've already paied for their *democratic* victory laps once, in more ways than dollars can count, and now we have to do it undemocratically in perpetuity?

For more excellent Rick-points, follow the link above. Bhatnager's main defense for his position seems to be that I've yet to face my mid-life crisis and gone all soft and wishy-washy like he is!

[update- remasted those comments into a full opinion piece here]