I live near the twin cities and they are trying to pass legislation to get a new outdoor stadium for each the Twins,Vikings and Gophers.The Timberwolves and Wild already got new arenas in the past few years.All of these arenas and stadiums will be supported by taxes.They even have to implement new taxes on fast food.Some little kid making $40 a week on his paper route that likes a Dairy Queen cone every couple days in the summer has to contribute money to Carl Pohlad,Ziggy Wilf and Glen Taylor's ''all billionaires''hobbies of owning a pro sports team.
I would have all the sympathy in the world for these owners if they put up all their own money to buy stadiums and arenas and ran the teams like a business with a proper balance sheet and at the end of the year they said they lost money because their taxes were too high.Maybe if these owners ran the teams like a business instead of paying a pitcher like Rojan Santana 15 million a year he would be paid the 5 million the free market would bear.Then of course after Santana made the 5 million he is worth I would feel sorry for him if he said his taxes were too high.
All of this subsidy welfare owners and players get makes other small businesses pay higher taxes.Then the city councils in these towns say that a new stadium brings in hundreds of million extra dollars into the city's coffers.If that's the case,why wouldn't the sales -entertainment taxes on hotel rooms,alcoholic beverages and fast food in the city go down?hehe!
Take a look at Dubya Bush when he owned the Texas Rangers.Him and his partners got the city to declare eminent domain on properties where the new stadium was to be located forcing private property owners out and then a sales tax was raised to build the stadium for them.Why don't you think the useless socialist democrats used that against him to make political hay with?It's because the democrats are the stadium welfare kings and queens doling out $$$$$$$$$$$$ to team owners.It means lots of work for their union thug constituents to build these public works projects and arenas.
In all of Wisconsin even 300 miles away from Green Bay they have an added sales tax that went to the refurbishing of Lambeau Field.Every mom and pop dry walling,carpet laying,cement pouring and painting private contractor pays the added tax everytime they eat lunch at ** Donalds.But no,they are not good enough to get a contract refurbishing Lambeau even though they may have put in the low bid on a job because the socialist democrat legislature said it's an all union project.Am I living in the formerly all communist state of the U.S.S.R here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
America,the land of opportunity,the home of the free and the brave where everyone is awarded the chance to work hard and succeed.hehehehehe!Yup,that depends if you are privileged enough to be on Santa's ''the government's''good list where you get lots of toys and goodies for free even though you have been a very bad boy.
It's almost as bad as FEMA paying 75 grand each for those Katrina victim construction trailers that are worth 8K.Am I the only one here that realizes how socialism has really fu%$ed up this country where nothing is on the level or legitimate anymore?
Then pro sports is a joke when it comes to gambling and acting like it doesn't exist.If it weren't for gambling what sane person would give a rats ass care if steroid big baby Bonds hit a home run or not.You could finance stadiums with parlay cards in no time flat but major league sports wants nothing to do with that.Why should they when they get the money given to them for free.Then too,it wouldn't be fair that a team owner could pay for his hobbie with legalized betting while me as an avid boater couldn't fund my hobbie by selling parlay cards.Afterall,I bring in alot of money to bait and tackle shops,boat repair-dealers,gas stations-marinas etc.I'm sure the greedy overspending states wouldn't want to lose their ripoff lottery procedes being that parlays would put a dent into lottery ticket sales.The states need that lottery money to flush down the toilet paying crony bureacrats bloated salaries to be gifted with employment in useless makework jobs.God forbid the stae run Las Vegas odds parlays that would actually give the bettor a reasonable chance to win.I'm sure the states would say that the brainless idiots who play scratch offs and such with 50% takeouts are at a disadvantage when it comes to playing a very slight game of skill like handicapping teams to make parlay picks.
I would have all the sympathy in the world for these owners if they put up all their own money to buy stadiums and arenas and ran the teams like a business with a proper balance sheet and at the end of the year they said they lost money because their taxes were too high.Maybe if these owners ran the teams like a business instead of paying a pitcher like Rojan Santana 15 million a year he would be paid the 5 million the free market would bear.Then of course after Santana made the 5 million he is worth I would feel sorry for him if he said his taxes were too high.
All of this subsidy welfare owners and players get makes other small businesses pay higher taxes.Then the city councils in these towns say that a new stadium brings in hundreds of million extra dollars into the city's coffers.If that's the case,why wouldn't the sales -entertainment taxes on hotel rooms,alcoholic beverages and fast food in the city go down?hehe!
Take a look at Dubya Bush when he owned the Texas Rangers.Him and his partners got the city to declare eminent domain on properties where the new stadium was to be located forcing private property owners out and then a sales tax was raised to build the stadium for them.Why don't you think the useless socialist democrats used that against him to make political hay with?It's because the democrats are the stadium welfare kings and queens doling out $$$$$$$$$$$$ to team owners.It means lots of work for their union thug constituents to build these public works projects and arenas.
In all of Wisconsin even 300 miles away from Green Bay they have an added sales tax that went to the refurbishing of Lambeau Field.Every mom and pop dry walling,carpet laying,cement pouring and painting private contractor pays the added tax everytime they eat lunch at ** Donalds.But no,they are not good enough to get a contract refurbishing Lambeau even though they may have put in the low bid on a job because the socialist democrat legislature said it's an all union project.Am I living in the formerly all communist state of the U.S.S.R here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
America,the land of opportunity,the home of the free and the brave where everyone is awarded the chance to work hard and succeed.hehehehehe!Yup,that depends if you are privileged enough to be on Santa's ''the government's''good list where you get lots of toys and goodies for free even though you have been a very bad boy.
It's almost as bad as FEMA paying 75 grand each for those Katrina victim construction trailers that are worth 8K.Am I the only one here that realizes how socialism has really fu%$ed up this country where nothing is on the level or legitimate anymore?
Then pro sports is a joke when it comes to gambling and acting like it doesn't exist.If it weren't for gambling what sane person would give a rats ass care if steroid big baby Bonds hit a home run or not.You could finance stadiums with parlay cards in no time flat but major league sports wants nothing to do with that.Why should they when they get the money given to them for free.Then too,it wouldn't be fair that a team owner could pay for his hobbie with legalized betting while me as an avid boater couldn't fund my hobbie by selling parlay cards.Afterall,I bring in alot of money to bait and tackle shops,boat repair-dealers,gas stations-marinas etc.I'm sure the greedy overspending states wouldn't want to lose their ripoff lottery procedes being that parlays would put a dent into lottery ticket sales.The states need that lottery money to flush down the toilet paying crony bureacrats bloated salaries to be gifted with employment in useless makework jobs.God forbid the stae run Las Vegas odds parlays that would actually give the bettor a reasonable chance to win.I'm sure the states would say that the brainless idiots who play scratch offs and such with 50% takeouts are at a disadvantage when it comes to playing a very slight game of skill like handicapping teams to make parlay picks.
