To: MNGOP Legislative Leadership
From: Mitch Berg, UppityConservative
Re: Vikings Stadiium.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In case the November 2010 mandate you got wasn’t clear enough, repeat after me.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
Everyone – all together now:
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
No public financing for a Vikings Stadium.
Keep repeating it until it sinks in.
We sent you there. We can send someone else that gets the message.
That is all.
How about a “jobs” program where people build a stadium?
Chuck:
No.
Chuck:
Double no.
Another sales tax would be just one more regressive tax. Didn’t we already have a study last week that the poor are paying too high a percentage of tax? Seriously folks quit being meanies.
How about a “jobs” program where people shovel money into a furnace?
Terry at least your idea would keep us warm, it’s better than flushing it to keep the Vikings.
How about Racino or Public Casino, with a portion of the profits to the stadium?
As a resident of Hennepin County, its about time we jam a tax down the throats of the rest of you people. Always remember, Laura Brod (Convenience Conservative of New Prague) defended and completely supported what 70% of Hennepin County residents were against. Yup, there’s a “good conservative” for you.
Don’t forget, that extra sales tax Hennco residents (and visitors) pay to build Target Field is still in place. Target Field is built.
Kermit,
AFAIK, the additional sales tax imposed on the downtown Minneapolis area for building the HHH dome is still in place, and they are contemplating tearing it down to build a new stadium.
How about Racino or Public Casino, with a portion of the profits to the stadium?
No, for three reasons:
1) The problem isn’t that the State of Minnesota doesn’t have enough money to spend as it is, the problem is that spends too much money.
2) Considering the high tax burden so many of us are already facing, I have never understood that idea that any new source of revenue should be treated as “found money” to be spent on some frivolity instead of being used to reduce taxes or pay off debt or reduce unfunded liabilities in other areas.
3) I think that Mitch covered this a couple of years ago but IIRC studies show that when you include costs like unemployment, breakup of marriages, etc. that public expansion of gambling costs taxpayers more than it brings in.
4) It’s not the purview of government.