Tom Dennis of the Grand Folks Herald has penned one of the the weakest arguments in favor of Vikings stadium Wilfare that I’ve seen written in an actual newspaper. He attempts to make a “sure, stadiums are economic losers, but money isn’t everything” argument, but uses examples that show otherwise. For example, he looks at [...]
Cory Merrifield of Save The Vikes has published a list of the Minneapolis city council members he considers possible swing votes in favor of using public revenue to subsidize Cory Merrifield’s Vikings season tickets. Seven of thirteen city councilmembers have already gone on record in opposition to Mayor Rybak’s stadium proposal, including city council members [...]
Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, tweeted that Wilf has been “Trying to put a Quality Product on the Field.” While “trying” is a popular way to measure success for athletes less than 10 years old, the NFL uses wins and losses as the measuring stick. Here is a comparison of the Win/Loss record of the Minnesota [...]
The Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, has stepped into the Vikings stadium Wilfare debate by calling MN legislators “assholes” for not meeting Zygi Wilf’s demand for more than half a billion taxpayer dollars: Perhaps Kluwe should try thinking of politics in terms of what’s justifiable. If it was justifiable to redistribute more than half a billion [...]
Survey USA’s polling of registered voters reinforces what we already know about Vikings stadium Wilfare sentiment: Minnesotans support the team until the team asks for Minnesotans to cover the majority of new stadium construction costs. While people may want a new stadium, they don’t want it enough to spend their on money. Interestingly, the most [...]
Shakopee Patch has a nice profile of Save the Vikes’ Cory Merrifield. It helps explain where the guy in coming from with his constant demands for other people’s money to subsidize his Vikings season tickets. The most interesting part of the article to me was this quote: Merrifield also remembers too well when the Minnesota [...]
Christopher Gates at the Daily Norseman has done a good job showing how entitled Vikings season ticket holders are to other people’s money. He begins: I get that the legislature lacks the testicular fortitude to present any kind of a solution and, instead, offers nothing but criticism. There have been a ton of solutions proposed. [...]
How does one fit an NFL stadium to the east of the Metrodome? I’m trying to figure that out. It’s a fun game to play while the Vikings and Vikings fans continue to beg for corporate welfare. The shot above shows the Metrodome via Google Maps. If you stuck another Metrodome next to the current [...]
Here is a decent example of how fiscal conservatism breaks down when it’s presented with demands for corporate welfare from NFL franchise owners. The fiscal conservative defends public investments in private businesses when the business is in the business of entertaining him 10 times per year. He’s willing to assume that the NFL franchise wouldn’t [...]
The 511 Building. You’ve probably driven past it numerous times, on your way in/out of downtown Minneapolis to/from I-94 between 5th & 6th streets, but may not know what happens inside. Lester Bagley, Ted Mondale, and the rest of the Minnesota Vikings Wilfare queens may not care what happens inside. For the rest of us, [...]