Go read my other comment

Post #282,156 by tonytib 4/17/07 12:59:12 PM Reply	Go read my other comment In the SFBA, nobody is asking for $500 million; instead, the owners are looking at putting up around that much. IMSHO, it all depends on cost. If I were in SF, and the 49ers were going to spend $600 million on a new stadium, and wanted $100 million of city money (e.g. to pay for road improvements), then I'd vote yes - it's worth it. But $500 million for a basketball arena? No way! --Tony
Post #282,157 by inthane-chan 4/17/07 1:11:07 PM Reply	Then we're almost in agreement. My problem is that this is not the kind of thing that I think the government should be involved with - private industry/entertainment should pay its own way. If it's not economically feasible on its own, then tough shit, and that includes paying to cover changes to highways and whatnot. Odoru aho ni miru aho! Onaji aho nara odoranya son son!
Post #282,384 by mmoffitt 4/19/07 4:34:28 PM Reply	Indianpolis residents are ponying up $142 million. And they will be paying for the stadium they also funded until 2012. It will be torn down in 2009. That's right, in addition to the 142 million they're going to pay for the new stadium, they'll STILL be making payments on the building that doesn't exist anymore. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell

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