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Don't be a dick.

Purchase cost is a tiny fraction of the lifetime cost of a system. Your IT department's time isn't free.

A single incident could cost several hundred dollars when you count lost productivity and technician time. Each time you don't have an issue you save money.

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This would be a valid reason to spend more money upfront. If this is the actual reason (not just the reason put on paper), I'd be pleasantly shocked.

Man, I hope you don't run a business. A small upfront cost that will make your employees more productive is a worthwhile cost. We are all government employee's bosses (as you so gleefully say), so we should want them to be as productive as possible.

There's a reason the most successful companies give their employees good equipment -- it makes them better employees. I don't understand why you think somebody working in the City would be different? Unless you want them to be less productive?

"What's this with wanting two monitors? I say you share one with someone else. Think of the money we'll save!"

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