# Who pays?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-pays/40665>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 10, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-pays/40665 "2000-11-10T17:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![h\_thur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@h\_thur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h_thur)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-pays/40665/1 "2000-11-10T17:15:11Z")

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Who pays for all the lawyers involved in the Florida recount? The Florda taxpayers, both the democrat and republican parties, or all of us (Americans)?

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-pays/40665/2 "2000-11-10T17:22:12Z")

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whoever hired the attorneys filing suit pays those attorneys. when they’ve filed against a governmental entity, (say the Palm Beach County) then that county’s attorney’s time is taken up. I suspect that both the Bush and Gore teams have sent billions and billions of billable hours down there.