Posted on 08/13/2015 6:53:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Go home Scotty,and embrace your inner feminist side with Megyn Kelly, and talk about open borders.
So if this is such a great deal, why does the state have to finance it ? What about the ownership going to a bank ?
The “economic growth will pay for itself” argument is made for EVERY taxpayer funded stadium. And it rarely, if ever, turns out that way.
Trump doe snot hate Scott Walker. I’ve heard him say what a nice guy he is. Trump builds under cost - I think he had one project in Atlantic City that went into overruns, but that wasn’t his fault. Licenses were held up or something. I heard his audio from his book, but can’t remember the specific details. SO, don’t spread lies that he has cost overruns. He normally gets his projects done under cost and on TIME>
Walker: Why does Trump keep attacking me with debunked ‘Democrat talking points’?
And the facts about Wisconsin's economy.
Sports are a huge deal in WI. I think it will pay for itself.
If you want to comment intelligently, it’s best to read the article first.
What a pathetic apologia.
Some Dems voting for something doesn’t mean there’s not a Republican crony tie.
$500,000 a year from a share of a ‘user fee’will not pay for “a large chunk of the arena”.
Any business channels income taxes into a state, but any state doesn’t pay such a business a half billion of its cost of doing business.
Claiming that such a giveaway will be in part paid for by cuts in spending elsewhere is also bogus.
Likewise, collecting more taxes from deadbeats is not “paying for” the arena.
And again the same on taxes raised on local parking.
Comparing it with the state funding a chemistry lab could hardly be more lame as well.
The complexity of the funding mechanisms do nothing to explain away that raising taxes and taking out humongous bonds for an arena are indeed public payment for a private business.
Shame on NR for even putting “Taxpayer Funded” in quotes in the title.
You haven’t even read this article before posting.
Sport are a big deal everywhere, and again, these boondoggles rarely pay off.
You notice how fast NR puts out articles to defend the members of the GOPe. Yup, no bias there.
Exactly.
Hey, the state could buy me a house and just apply my taxes to the mortgage. See. I’m really paying for it myself. Yes, this is crony capitalism. If anything, the sport team owners should pay for the privilege of building the stadium to cover for the extra costs taxpayers will have to cover such as extra policing.
You have totally spun this to a place that is entirely off the wall and fictional.
Except that the NBA players have been paying that since the Bucks entered the league and I assume it's gone into the general revenue fund. So if suddenly more than half of it will now be devoted to paying for the Bucks stadium then I assume the Wisconsin taxpayers are on the hook for making up for where that money was spent before?
Anyway you look at it taxpayer are funding a big part of the arena and the Bucks owners are making out on the deal. At least when Kansas City renovated the Truman Sports Complex they put the issue to the taxpayers in a referendum. And the taxpayers approved the spending. Tney didn't have it shoved down their throat by the legislature.
Why are you supporting such twisted logic? Taxpayer money is being given away. Are you so in the tank for a GOPe candidate that you are blind?
When you have to go to such lengths to reword something, it is you who are twisting logic.
It’s taxpayer money. Period. Calling it offsets is merely a budget balancing magic trick. And while offsets often are real, even if they are ... it’s taxpayer money.
He wouldn’t be arguing “it would cost taxpayers more to lose them” (it wouldn’t) then keep them if he wasn’t using taxpayer money.
Taxpayer money for a billionaire’s sports arena? While I would vote for most of the GOP candidates (certainly not Jebby or Rubio) , I will never, ever vote for smarmy lap dog Walker.
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