[Mpls] Annette Meeks supports tax increase: "It's not a tax - it's a user fee" for Stadium Boondoggle

[Eva Young]

Big nonsense from Annette Meeks on At Issue today.

When they were talking about the Stadium Boondoggle, she said when asked 
wasn't this a tax increase, she said "it's not a tax, it's a user 
fee".  That's the biggest bunch of nonsense I've ever heard.  Hauser let 
her get by with this without correction.

I wonder if she'd say the same for a metro-wide sales tax increase of the 
same amount to pay for transit.

At the 8th ward convention, Frank Hornstein told me that a number of DFL 
legislators probably supported this tax increase for a stadium - Margaret 
Anderson Kelliher, Linda Higgins and Keith Ellison were three in 
Minneapolis who were mentioned as probably supportive of this nonsense.

Hornstein said that if Hennepin County were to raise sales taxes - a much 
better use for that money would be for transit.  I agree.


Eva Young
Near North
Minneapolis
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