Sports/entertainment stadia are monuments to slick sports/entertainment biz owners and their remarkable ability to gull the tax-serfs into fronting the capital costs to enable stupid level entertainer paychecks and a few contris to the gang in the statehouse,
Methinks Sherrill is just riding a wave of public revulsion from area commuters who have pretty much been told to screw off in order to buff her "populist" creds,
The Olympics should live permanently in Greece,
Substitution effect is real, as in every bigtown new stadium deal that comes along.
(am a spawn of NJ, abdicated to TX, the grift lives here too...maybe bigger)
Public subsidy for sports businesses with billions of dollars involved shows we have lost the plot as a business culture, to ask for such largess is a clear morale failure that is not only tolerated but encouraged.
which boil down to World Cup tourists replacing some pre-existing percentage of tourism activity rather than adding only new spending, as well as simply redirecting entertainment spending that would have occurred under normal circumstances.
This is why I voted for the governor.
Well said, Pat. As a resident of “Noo Joisey” I am disgusted by the FIFA scam (and by the teams that deceptively label themselves as “New York”).
FIFA is just another traveling grift,
Sports/entertainment stadia are monuments to slick sports/entertainment biz owners and their remarkable ability to gull the tax-serfs into fronting the capital costs to enable stupid level entertainer paychecks and a few contris to the gang in the statehouse,
Methinks Sherrill is just riding a wave of public revulsion from area commuters who have pretty much been told to screw off in order to buff her "populist" creds,
The Olympics should live permanently in Greece,
Substitution effect is real, as in every bigtown new stadium deal that comes along.
(am a spawn of NJ, abdicated to TX, the grift lives here too...maybe bigger)
Public subsidy for sports businesses with billions of dollars involved shows we have lost the plot as a business culture, to ask for such largess is a clear morale failure that is not only tolerated but encouraged.
which boil down to World Cup tourists replacing some pre-existing percentage of tourism activity rather than adding only new spending, as well as simply redirecting entertainment spending that would have occurred under normal circumstances.
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