$77 per ticket per game.
That’s what the taxpayers will be paying to subsidize the Vikings stadium if the legislature caves in on the deal.
I’m getting those figures from that teabagging wingnut John Marty:
If the bill for the Minnesota Vikings new stadium passes the cost to taxpayers will be $77.30 per ticket, per game, for 30 years, according to an analysis by state senator John Marty, who submitted his findings to his colleagues yesterday (see his full report below). If the taxpayers of Minnesota think $77.30 is too much, Marty has even worse news: the real cost is much greater because his calculation does not include the value of the property tax exemption on the stadium and the parking ramps, nor the value of the sales tax exemption on construction materials.
Never thought I’d post a letter from John Marty that I agreed with – but here you go.
In the meantime, Governor Dayton is holding a lot of key reform proposals – tax reform, LIFO – hostage behind a crowd of chanting purple-clad bobos who’d light their charcoal with the Bill of Rights to get the taxpayers to pay for their recreation.
And pay.
And pay.
If we don’t stop the NFL’s ongoing plunder of state and city taxpayers, who will?
Because if we pay for it now, they’ll be back in 31 years looking for another one, just about the time we finish paying $77 a freaking seat for the one we don’t have yet.