The strib comments are always a wonderful tour through the "loudmouthed uninformed" Basically, the people commenting there always assume money spent on things like this comes directly from taxpayers at the expense of poor people, the dental health of our youth, and educational opportunities for everyone.
I forget what town but there was an article about some small town a while back. In the first line in the article it talks about how some nice old guy nobody really knew paid for something like a local baseball field (maybe a soccer field or something) to be renovated out of his pocket.
Literally the first line in the article. Even the title indicated it was a gift.
More than half of the comments where "muh taxdollars!!!!"