On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, James E Jacobsen wrote: > Every town in America, large and small, has a public arena of some kind, > for public events, --and a public baseball park. > You think that now here in Minneapolis that should be a private task for > private parties to build a major public stadium holding some 50,000 > people for baseball and every other kind of public event. > The property taxes alone would make it fail economically. > Your pail doesn't hold water.
My home town has a public arena, but it is for amateur and high school sports. It also has a public baseball/softball complex, but it is for amateur leagues and teams. Minneapolis already provides many public sports facilities for amateur sports. The whole point of building a new baseball stadium is to help the Twins, which is a private, money-making enterprise. The new baseball stadium would not be built to provide a sports facility for the rest of us to play in. Since the stadium would be for the benefit of a private, money-making enterprise, let them pay for it. I do not want any of my taxes being used to help enrich a private, money-making enterprise. Scott McGerik Hawthorne/Minneapolis http://www.mcgerik.com/scott/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
