Walker = a not very bright lap dog. Nothing more.
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It was cheaper to keep the Bucks. It was a good decision based on the real factors involved:
—10+ million per year in taxes from players... which will inevitably go up as player contract increase.
—Fixed 15 million per year in maintenance of an unused facility
====”We’re still working on this estimate. We believe that if nothing is done, let’s just say nothing is done, the Bucks leave, where are we here. We estimate to just to be able to maintain for safety issues and basic maintenance, it will cost $100 million over the next 10 to 12 years,” Marotta said.==
state coffers would suffer the loss of an estimated $299 million in income tax collections over 20 years from the Bucks and visiting NBA players.
I think they did the same thing in Rochester ny
lemmee see...
walker and his team did the math..
not the new math, but real math..
and deterimined that this was a good deal for taxpayers..
the reporter and the lib socialist communist determined without anykind of proof whatsoever that...
walker is an a$$hole...
who do you believe???
the answer to this question will rip your very soul out...
who do you believe???
A lot of states don’t OWN their basketball venues.
Funds to build the Center were donated as a gift to the State of Wisconsin by philanthropists, Jane Bradley Pettit and Lloyd Pettit, in memory of Jane’s late father, Harry Lynde Bradley of the Allen-Bradley company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMO_Harris_Bradley_Center
In Washington we had the Seattle King Dome. They had just finished putting a new and very expensive roof on it. It was a well used multipurpose facility that while I am sure it was a money loser was appropriate for the local climate and we went to numerous events there over the years.
The local professional sports teams decided they wanted a new stadium, but they each wanted one that was dedicated to their particular sport. So with a price tag of over a billion dollars they tore down the King Dome and replaced it with two new stadiums right next to each other. It was a colossal waste of tax payer dollars and a very good example of government waste and largesse to undeserving fat cats.
Shows you why a do-nothing Senator job is so much more easier than being a Governor.
Governor=Responsibility
Senator=None
He either believes this statement or he doesn't.
I don't like the implications of either possibility.
Cruz - 2016
If the Bucks had left leaving a $15+ million hole in yearly tax revenues Plus having to maintain an obsolete stadium at $ 10 million per year Walker would have been blamed for losing jobs and tax revenue.
All cities are extremely liberal. Even Mormon Salt Lake City, Utah voted for Omugabe.
In politics one size never fits all, and it's possible for a politician to respect that. The majority of city slickers want higher taxes and more government while country people want lower taxes and less government. An unbeatable politician is a Democrat to the city slickers and a Republican to everyone else. Here Walker is giving the city slicker Democrats what they want and making them pay for it. The state is only chipping in 1/3rd, with the city and their county taxpayers paying the rest.
“The team’s ownership group — which includes one of Walker’s top campaign fundraisers “
All you need to know. And all you need to know about how Mitt Walker would be as President.
Whilst I appreciate your concern as a Tennessean for the tax paying residents of Milwaukee County, I am puzzled by your absence of concern regarding the taxpayer funded downtown light rail system nobody but the Mayor wants, which is being shoved down our throats without any form of public review or input.
Methinks you are pursuing a different agenda . . .
This is the same deal that every city makes. It stinks everywhere, and not just in the US.
All stadiums have been replaced. Every place the Beatles played is gone (those were the Big rooms once upon a time).
And when they old stadium/arena is decommissioned for sports, Livenation and others see to it that the old buildings cannot be used for concerts (non-compete clause with the corporation that p’wns the concert contracts on virtually all of the NEW major stadiums).
Those are typically city done deals, though. Not state (governor) decisions.
But keep up your anti-Walker rants. Hillary can use the votes. Or don’t you care about her corruption?
I generally support Walker as my #2 choice (behind Cruz, of course), but I disapprove of all crony capitalism. No city or state should ever pay for sports arenas. The roads and sewers for the arena are a trickier question, but the arena itself should be privately funded or not built.
Oh Poof ! Walker declared the state of Wisconsin pay for a NBA stadium ?
What seems to be missing in this anti-Walker diatribe is that this issue was debated on and passed on by both legislative houses in the state of Wisconsin with bi-partisan dupport..If the majority didn’t want it and the “deal” wasn’t right. It would never would have passed.