Again ref the Stadium issues:
01. The stadium, besides for baseball -inevitably will house -as the
current one has- rock concerts, Billy Graham, and all kinds of civic
activities, and it is the wavering tens of thousands of people that will go
there all paying a ticket price -- and all of which defines it as a civic
facility. Do good and constructive citizens rant and rave that such a place
be paid for by a private individual or companies??
02. After all the arguments for or against whatever funding for the
stadium, when the final deal is set for construction, there will be a bond
issue, -just like the for the last stadium and any school or public
building- which will raise all the money needed for construction and
completion of the stadium and all of it coming from the private sector,
likely a big chunk of the bonds will be funded happily by Carl Pohlad
himself, or his banks. And then the bonds will be paid off by stadium
revenues over the life of the stadium.
03. Any restaurant or other tax levied to make it look good for bond
issue, though unnecessary in paying off the stadium bonds, will not be
significant.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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