[Mpls] historic stadium

[David Brauer]

Dain tries, again.

> As I recall the previous mayor applied said tax to the
> building of the convention center. Once a tax is added
> it does not go away. Dain Lyngstad edina/phillips

No, the half-cent sales tax to pay for the Convention Center is a completely
different deal. It's on everything sales-taxable in the city; the Metrodome
tax wasn't (again, it was a hotel/motel/liquor only).

Also, there's a two-year gap between the Dome tax expiring and the
Convention Center tax beginning.

Aside from that, they're exactly the same <grin>.

The city has also imposed other sales taxes - for example, an entertainment
tax in 1969, when the Twins were busy losing to the Orioles in the playoffs
at Met Stadium - but those taxes arrived at times other than the Dome tax's
expieration.

Facts are facts: the Metrodome tax died. It didn't end all taxation, but it
died.

David Brauer
Kingfield