The more I look at Vikings stadium welfare supporters, the more I see a grassroots coalition of fake Twitter accounts. For example, doesn’t it seem kind of strange that @VIKESSTADIUM protected his tweets at the same time “Jim Bratz” started defending @VIKESSTADIUM in the comments of this blog? Perhaps that’s because @VIKESSTADIUM is “Jim Bratz“, [...]
I say something like this: If a stadium is what Wilf needs to be make his business more profitable, perhaps that is where he should be investing his own money? Which earns a reply like this: Perhaps you should have read the part where he will kick in 407+ million, plus 20 million per year. [...]
A Vikings fan commenting on the StarTribune going by the name vikingjim77 actually seems to understand that the Vikings are owned by Zygi Wilf, so Zygi is the person who gets to decide whether it’s worth putting his insatiable appetite for public welfare ahead of the interests of loyal Vikings fans: Get it done zygi, [...]
Bleacher View from “Bleacher View – Voyageur Country” penned a post on his/her blog yesterday regarding whether it’s appropriate to call $600 million in public subsidies to a private company welfare. The article, “Stadium Financing….Welfare? A Rediculous Assertion” [sic] breaks it down: Some stadium opponents have a singular focus in their opposition to public support [...]
Statistically, Zygi Wilf’s stadium proposal will lead to the death of at least one person. That’s just one of the costs of relocating the Vikings to a stadium they don’t need in Arden Hills. I mentioned yesterday that it would be stupid to build a stadium in a location that’s far removed from major transit [...]
Tom Elko sent this TP shot in from a recent trip to the Windy City. He described it as a “disappointment”, which is not what one would expect at a Marriott. Perhaps Marriott needs to go back to using TP stickers? I’m not sure that they need to shut down for an all-company meeting to [...]
If you were going to build a business in Minnesota that relies upon 60,000 people coming to visit you once a week for 8 weeks, where would you put it? Perhaps in a location with easy access to all major highways, with plenty of parking, and lots of transit? One might thing. But, if you [...]
Here is an example of a fairly typical Vikings stadium welfare debate exchange on Twitter: A Vikings stadium welfare supporter will claim that the state will lose money if we don’t give $600,000,000 to Zygi Wilf so he can build a stadium so Jerry Jones makes more money from his cut of NFL profit sharing. [...]
Could someone help me reconcile the following two nuggets? First, a quote from Vikings fanboy, Tony Bennett, who wants to spend Ramsey County’s money on welfare payments to Zygi Wilf. He doesn’t want the public to decide whether this is a good idea. In fact, he’s admitted that letting the people vote on taxing themselves [...]
Welcome to Part IV of my epic response to Skol Girl’s epic justification of public welfare for private businessman, Zygi Wilf, so he can move his football team 10 miles, build 21,000 parking places, and charge us $600,000,000 to do so. In Part II, Skol Girl explained that tax revenues are not fungible when viewed [...]
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