> Brian wrote: > My enthusiastic enjoyment of professional sports at a professional stadium > is a huge ROI as far as i'm concerned. Is it different than building a > convention center or public park? >
Because those aren't private businesses that get to keep a profit from a monopoly based on tax-payer funded infrastructure. The players keep going back to the trough to ask for more money because they can. The owners, who want the best players but can't afford to pay them, asked you for higher ticket prices but eventually they priced them so high attendance fell. So how do they get the money to keep making a profit? Taxpayers! What business wouldn't get a higher profit if the government paid for it's infrastructure? So the owners just resturcture their costs to add a new revenue stream - taxpayer dollars. But what's to stop the players from coming back to the trough? Nothing. So the next thing will be practice facilities. Then equipment. Then once the taxpayers are tapped out, ads on jerseys and helmets. IT'S PORK! It's just government pork to subsidize a private company. No different than Halliburton. And that's why Randy Moss has so much contempt for you: he thinks you're a moron who'll follow the scent of his jock strap throwing money at him no matter how he treats you. Is he right? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:168613 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
