[Mpls] An Uprising of Uncommitted Delegates...

[Leurquin, Ronald]

Jon
Is the fact that the tax is quite low the only reason you can find that we should have this giant give away of tax dollars to MN's richest man?  Give me a break!  Baseball and other major league sports are poorly run businesses that only survive on the handouts of new stadiums.
The Twins owner can afford to build this stadium out of his own wealth, not even get a loan for it.  I on the other hand have to work my _____ off and make monthly payments just to put a roof over my own head.  It is wrong on so many levels to take money from may pocket and give it to the Twins owner.
The only other business I find this poorly run are the Airlines, and we know how well Northwest has been at keeping its promises in order to get tax money for whatever they want.
Ron Leurquin
Nokomis East



Jon wrote:
It's becoming obvious that there really
is no practical argument to the stadium plan. Only a
really idealogical one. I mean come on, say you go out
with a few friends on Friday night and spend two
hundred dollars on whatever. The grand total tax you
wind up paying (the group of you) is thirty cents! How
can anyone have a rational argument that this is
stealing from the poor? If you can afford the two
hundred bucks I think you might be able to swing the
thirty cents. I believe both candidates for mayor are
indeed living in the real world and their opponents
are working themselves into an idealogical frenzy over
a nit. Also the usual gang of sports haters are
ranting in. 
 
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