Revolting

On twitter, some of the people who want the Minnesota taxpayer to pay for them to have stadium are using the hashtag #fanrevolt, in terms of “revolting” against the Legislature if they don’t cough up the tax money to pay for their recreation.

Not against the Vikings, who can afford to build their own stadium.

Not against the NFL, which organizes the blackmail of every city and state where they want – not “need”, mind you, but want – a new stadium.

No.  The Legislature.  Whose majority was elected on a “spend less” platform.  It’s not like you couldn’t have seen this coming.

I wonder who’s paying for that effort?

16 thoughts on “Revolting

  1. We paid for LRT, we can afford to spend some of the surplus on a stadium

  2. Let them revolt!! Let them revolt by organizing a collection amongst themselves to raise all the money they need to build Ziggy a fancy new stadium. Then they can be happy knowing that the portion of the public that wants a publicly-funded stadium put their publicly donated money where their public mouth is and those of us who want to use our privately earned money to pay our own privately owed bills can do so too. It’s win-win all around!

  3. It’s just economics, with just 12-14 paying days a year, it’s hard to pay-off a Taj Majhal.

  4. The extortion attempt is simply blatant.

    For a change, I enjoyed MNN’s sound bite this morning. Instead of running to Tom Bakk for comment like they always do, they asked Kurt Zellers about the issue and he said Dayton needed to find more than one vote from his own party in committee and asked why the Minneapolis DFL delegation wouldn’t come out in support.

  5. Listen with all the government waste out there, why not put tax dollars somewhere where there actually is a chance of a return on profits, or getting our money back at least

  6. The little old lady next door told me if the City doesn’t pony up for a new recreation building including nicer tables and chairs, the Como Park Canasta Club will pull up stakes and relocate to Highland. Don’t think they wouldn’t do it! And THEN we’d be sorry.

  7. Prince of Darkness: Quite possibly so. That’s why you’re the Lord of the Underworld. As to Nate’s contention that the “canasta community” will be devastated without taxpayer intervention – consider Frisbee golf. We have a Frisbee golf course in Crystal that draws up to dozens of tourists to our community. This is a local treasure and we only need a couple million to build us a world-class course which could double participation.

    Once we start down the road of subsidizing recreation, we all have our favorite past time that is no more, or less, sacred to us than football or baseball are to others.

  8. yes because public money has NEVER EVER went to a private corporation or citizen. Why is helping the Vikings build a stadium any different than having funds go to help Best Buy build their HQ in Richfield or help Target Corp renovate their offices? Seriously I want to hear why its different

  9. Once we start down the road of subsidizing recreation
    We haven’t already…?
    Target Field, Target Center, TCF Bank Stadium?

  10. yes because public money has NEVER EVER went to a private corporation or citizen.

    I’m not sure what this comment is supposed to mean. If you’ve read Mitch’s blog and the comments for any appreciable length of time, I think you’ll find a general consensus that one of the biggest problems in our country today is the scope of and the mere fact that much of what government does involves forcibly taking that you refer to as “public money” (but which most of us think of as “money that taken from one or more of its rightful owners”) and redistributing it to someone else. I suspect that most of Mitch’s regulars would agree with me that (a) this is a Bad Thing and (b) it should stop and (c) even if we’re not successful in doing that, at the very least we ought to oppose efforts to expand it.

  11. If they really want to get a stadium built they should recruit the efforts of the Van Jones Town sheeple!!!

  12. All I know is that I’d rather have my taxpayer money go to fund this stadium effort than some burecratic stooge in St.Paul

  13. Why is helping the Vikings build a stadium any different than having funds go to help Best Buy build their HQ in Richfield or help Target Corp renovate their offices?

    BenofDarkness: They are the same, except for the fact that MN and probably Hennepin county will be on the hook for public money for a stadium. With Target and Best Buy, only the municipalities they are located in were on the hook for public money. That said, I don’t think ANY of it is right. When UHG builds their 4 building campus on the SW Corner of 169/62, they won’t get any public assistance from Eden Prairie. That made me feel good about working for them.

    TBS: You’re in Crystal? I live 2 blocks north of that park, and Lassie (infrequent commenter here, but frequent poster at True North) lives 6 blocks west of me.

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