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To: PAR35
If approved by voters, Dallas' hotel tax rate would rise from 15 percent to what officials said would be the highest in the nation at 18 percent.

I will never understand why the average citizen has to fund a multi-million dollar stadium so that multimillionaire football players can chase an oblonged ball down a field and charge the average citizen through the nose to watch the event.

3 posted on 01/29/2004 12:45:58 PM PST by 2banana
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To: 2banana
One definition of football:

22 men who desperately need a rest being watched by 80,000 fans who desperately need exercise.
5 posted on 01/29/2004 12:56:55 PM PST by taxcontrol (People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: 2banana
yea if it's such a great investment and helps the economy so much then why don't the fatcats instead of the taxpayers pay for it...
13 posted on 01/29/2004 1:28:55 PM PST by Republicus2001
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