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So you support Texas Tax Payers giving $250,000,000.00 to foreign interests to build a race track?

First: it's not $250,000,000.00. The article I posted says it is 10 times less -- $25,000,000. (That's quite an error on your part trumandogz.)

Second: I expect this Formula One race track is going to generate a huge amount of money for Texas and Austin.

Third: Good.

You are his strongest supporter here.

What are Perry’s present positions on:

1. gardasil and any drug FORCED upon the people

2. kickbacks to politicians for #1

3. deaths and tumors resulting from #1

“First: it’s not $250,000,000.00. The article I posted says it is 10 times less — $25,000,000. (That’s quite an error on your part trumandogz.)”

I probably a good idea if you would actually read beyond the headlines.

Now, if you were to actually read a full article regarding the Austin Formula One track, you would find that the State of Texas has committed $25,000,000 a year for ten years.

$25,000,000 x 10 = $250,000,000

(That’s quite an error on your part)

According to the lawsuit, Combs twice sent letters to a local F1 promoter saying the state was committed to paying $25 million per year over 10 years to hold the race in Texas.

“According to the lawsuit, Combs twice sent letters to a local F1 promoter saying the state was committed to paying $25 million per year over 10 years to hold the race in Texas.”

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/racing/wires/06/23/Formula.1.Texas.ap/index.html

“Second: I expect this Formula One race track is going to generate a huge amount of money for Texas and Austin.”

If you suspect that the Formula One race track is going to produce such a huge amount of money, why is it that you do not invest your own money into the project?

If this project is going to return such a profit, why is it that they do not raise that $250,000,000 from Private Investors?

Now, why is it that you support Perry’s Texas Stimulus Programs that give hundreds of millions of tax dollars to foreign business interests?

Would you approve of a similar amount of tax dollars being given to foreign investors to build an "Opera/Ballet/Symphony Hall," on the basis that it would bring the finest opera singers, ballet dancers and European Symphonies to the area? Just asking as many people are more than happy to give land, revenue and future tax dollars for sports venues yet balk at doing the same for the arts.

I'm not pushing either, merely saying that it depends on what your pleasure is as to how you feel about stealing land and money from the taxpayers to support such "entertainment" that few of the same citizens desire or could afford to attend.

If the people/corporations desire such a track, let them raise the money, buy the land and build it themselves.

You can't refer to something as the "public good" when it only benefits a limited amount of citizens who actually like the sport/art.