>Is a highway infrastructure a subsidy? Of course it is, if the only reason for infrastructure construction is to accommodate a single corporation. That's why any infrastructure costs related to a stadium have to be counted as public subsidy.
The unfairness to all other businesses and homeowners is obvious on its face when such special deals are handed out as in response to the ugly competition corporations have set up between and among communities in the same region - where little more than a building is going up. The jobs only pay off for a city when the workers move to within the city limits, hopefully the neighborhood. Cities benefit only from property taxes paid - not the income taxes paid by the wage-earners (they go to the state) - or the few sales taxes paid at local retail merchants. That means that giving away the property tax benefit of a large development like this is truly giving away the store - and saddling homeowners and commercial citizens with the increased tax bill from the loss. This is corporate welfare at its worst. Andy Driscoll Saint Paul -------- > From: Terrell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:50:54 -0800 (PST) > To: Minneapolis Issues List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Mpls] Allina > > > --- David Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I see the pluses and minuses of the Allina "get," but I think it's >> absolutely fair for citizens to ask about the cost-benefit of a >> project >> that is being subsidized both through forgiven property taxes and >> highway infrastructure. > > [TB] Is a highway infrastructure a subsidy? We as a public generally > provide such things as roads and sewers when a building (be it a > shopping mall, office building or home) is built. > > You're never going to have a community if you don't have some method of > getting around. > > > Terrell Brown > Loring Park > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. > http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools > REMINDERS: > 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
