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 notice how fast NR puts out articles to defend the members of the GOPe. Yup, no bias there.