[Winona Online Democracy]
$75,000???!!!!
this entire study should cost no more than a couple thousand dollars at best. we throw 75k of local tax dollars at a study on whether a money losing, publicly underwritten money pit should be getting a new theater (250k coming from state coffers...that $250k is still our hard earned $$ people, just because the check is coming from St Paul doesn't mean it didn't come out of your paycheck).
Let me ask a more pertinent question here local taxpayers. What could $75,000 have done for the dilapidated playgrounds of the east end of Winona? Obviously when the "arts" are concerned, the kids of the poorer neighborhoods in this city are disregarded as irrelevant. This is an ABSOLUTE waste of taxpayer funds, whoever approved this should be ashamed of themselves, how you can sleep at night after throwing our hard earned monies out the window at a losing program is beyond me. We couldn't get $$$ to fix up run down
playgrounds for the life of us. We had to beg and plead. A bunch of Theater Majors come to town one summer( Ala the Music Man) , start doing some Shakespeare plays, and they are being funded to the tune of millions of taxpayer dollars, while NOT contributing anything to the local economy( how many of those tickets are actually sold? I have gone the past few years and was given the damn things to me every night I wanted to attend, which will never be again, I refuse to participate in this shakedown any longer) GRSF doesn't contribute a damn thing to this economy. The ROI (return on investment for you Theater Majors) is negative, if anyone here can prove me wrong on that premise, please, prove me wrong. I am more than willing to listen.
Can SOMEONE tell me how on earth it takes $325,000 to determine if we need to build a theater for these crooks? Someone please break down the costs for us, I am SOOOO curious as to where these
dollars end up. If I was building a manufacturing facility here in Winona I have a hard time believing it would cost me $325k to figure out if it was feasible...let alone a theater which won't carry a mandate to be profitable, or at the very least, self sufficient...
When you fellow taxpayers are driving home from work tonight, take a look around town...where else would $75k be better spent? Where else would $325k be better spent? How much of that $325 is being spent legitimately and responsibly and how much is just simply being pocketed?
Wake up winonans, pretend this is your money....because IT IS!!! We are being robbed and shakendown by a a bunch of cons masquerading as a theater troupe. WAKE UP! At the very least, hold them as accountable as you would any corporate entity eating out of the public trough.
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