> 3. Wasn't this a root cause of the Revolutionary
> War? Well here it comes, another stadium proposal
that the taxpayers are going to take in the shorts.
Completely ignoring recent evidence of
> successful privately financed stadiums (New England,
> Atlanta and San Francisco), the Twins and Hennepin
County have come up with a plan
>
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5385814.html>
> that everyone, except those who have to pay for it,
are raving about. While the majority of the county
commissioners (sans Steele, Dorfman and Koblick)
> seem to have no problem with this instance of
> corporate welfare, it will be left to the efforts of
(ahem) a few brave Minneapolis state legislators to
stop this plan now or during the inevitable special
> session to come.
>
Annette Meeks on Tom Hauser's show said this was a
"user fee" not a tax. She reiterated that to me when
I asked her about this at the Minnesota Women's
Political Caucus event earlier this week.
Eva Young
Policy Librarian
Eva Young
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