I had Caelan make the point on 'pay as your honour dictates' deliberately to avoid the ongoing wars Kasper got.
Face it, the WIT consider themselves above us all, and no Pontiff will ever make them pay their fair share or do anything they don't want to do as they see themselves as the only real 'Pontiff' with everyone else just a pretender keeping their seat warm - frankly short of starting a holy war and killing the Arch Prelate (don't tempt me, he's theoretically a vague ally) the Pontiff's role is going to be a nightmare with them around for anyone.
So Robhan's view is 'pay at least half, pay the rest if you have any respect for the Conclave. He's hoping that if he gets lumbered with the job then even the WIT won't whine over 3 lousy GB.
Of course, the fun will be when the Avan vs Boeruine war hots up, and the WIT starts getting some interesting choices on who to support - can the rest of us help break up the dominance of the north-west? Can we convince Brandon "bloodtheft" Boer to see the Arch Prelate as closer to the Avan family than the Green Knight? (People further than the GN being fairly irrelevant in the scheme of things as I doubt that Brandon is going to kill that particular Avan...)
The Conclave is one of the more active threads, and one of the louder ones, but its obviously been hell on Kasper.
Hmm, I need to check my budget, see how much closer to bankruptcy I'll get if I get stuck with it.