Stadiums not an economic boon for taxpayers

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lock&load wrote: done, sort of :)
nice. are you talking about the stadiums in montreal? cool. i like it.
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better?
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not sure where that stadium is.

are you referring to kauffman stadium?
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It says Kauffman Stadium.  But it's your quote...are you confusing yourself?
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lock&load wrote: It says Kauffman Stadium.  But it's your quote...are you confusing yourself?
no, it does not. your dumbass spelled it wrong. kaffuman. it is KAUFFMAN.

for someone who is always up on spelling, rich, you sure fucked that up.
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kcdcchef wrote: no, it does not. your dumbass spelled it wrong. kaffuman. it is KAUFFMAN.

for someone who is always up on spelling, rich, you sure fucked that up.
My bad, I screwed that one up.  Sorry to embarass you by bungling your quote!!
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lock&load wrote: My bad, I screwed that one up.  Sorry to embarass you by bungling your quote!!
you did not bungle my quote.

however, wait til you see the signatures i have planned if this passes.......................
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kcdcchef wrote: you did not bungle my quote.

however, wait til you see the signatures i have planned if this passes.......................
and if it loses?

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lock&load wrote: and if it loses?

not necessary. if it fails, it will just return again, a plan regarding the truman sports complex.

that downtown stadium you are pining for will not happen in our lifetime. well, we will be OLD when it happens.
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kcdcchef wrote: we will be OLD when it happens.
speak for yourself...

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lock&load wrote: speak for yourself...
its cyclops!!!!
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Sorry, wrong picture before...

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lock&load wrote: Sorry, wrong picture before...


not that this has anything to do with this thread, but, what do you do for a living?
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Looks like I missed all sorts of highbrow conversation since yesterday.  I guess I will go ahead and respond to this. 
kcdcchef wrote: WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE STADIUM?????????????[/b]
Everything.  He wanted out of the lease.  Why, because the renovated Coliseum sucks.  The only reason he has not "demanded a new one" is that he knows that Oakland/Alameda couldn't even really afford to pay for the reno and there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of it getting done.  Make no doubt about it, if the league and the state would have let him, Al would have been back in LA 3 years after the renovation.  You can sit here and try and argue semantics all day long but it won't change the fact that the renovated Coliseum sucks and hasn't done a damn thing to help the teams that reside there.  Ever been to the place?  Its a giant sixties style stadium, remarkably similar to the K, except it now has a big ugly football suite tower slapped into the outfield.  The thing couldn't hope to remotely compete with modern stadiums; just like our half ass renovated stadiums wouldn't stack up to the real deal.
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GRID wrote:
Jackson County has a low tax rate, especially for a large, urban core county.
Grid--
Read the paper this morning about our need to upgrade the sewer system.  If this is funding by a sales tax increase and the TSC tax passes we will have the largest sales taxes in the area.  And look at your property tax for last year.  Those are skyrocketing too.  If you really want to continue the expansion of the city and promote business you can't have runaway taxes.  These owners need to pay for their own building upkeep.



"All that work could cost anywhere from more than $2 billion to more than $3 billion, the city said.
City staff is discussing an election date, possibly in two years, so voters can approve one or more funding options. Options include:
■ A 1-cent sales tax. If it passes, and if voters also pass the sales tax for major renovations at the sports stadiums next month, Kansas City residents could face the highest sales tax in the region and possibly one of the highest in the nation.
■ Higher property taxes.
■ A variety of bonds. But voters just passed one of the largest bond proposals in the city’s history last August. That $500 million proposal, while dealing with water and sewers, allots only a small portion for the combined sewer project."
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beautyfromashes wrote: Grid--
Read the paper this morning about our need to upgrade the sewer system.  If this is funding by a sales tax increase and the TSC tax passes we will have the largest sales taxes in the area.  And look at your property tax for last year.  Those are skyrocketing too.  If you really want to continue the expansion of the city and promote business you can't have runaway taxes.  These owners need to pay for their own building upkeep.



"All that work could cost anywhere from more than $2 billion to more than $3 billion, the city said.
City staff is discussing an election date, possibly in two years, so voters can approve one or more funding options. Options include:
■ A 1-cent sales tax. If it passes, and if voters also pass the sales tax for major renovations at the sports stadiums next month, Kansas City residents could face the highest sales tax in the region and possibly one of the highest in the nation.
■ Higher property taxes.
■ A variety of bonds. But voters just passed one of the largest bond proposals in the city’s history last August. That $500 million proposal, while dealing with water and sewers, allots only a small portion for the combined sewer project."
Actually, I think Grid lives in eastern Jackson County.  The sewer issue is only a KC problem.

And, based on likely votor populations, even if the Jackson County portion of KC votes no on the 4th, eastern Jackson County could still carry the issue.  Neat.
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LenexatoKCMO wrote: Looks like I missed all sorts of highbrow conversation since yesterday.  I guess I will go ahead and respond to this. 

Everything.  He wanted out of the lease.  Why, because the renovated Coliseum sucks.  
yeah, but bottom line, he asked out of the lease, 5 years ago, because he was not getting sell outs, before, or after the renovations. he never ONCE mentioned renovations. not once. you did.
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kcdcchef wrote: he never ONCE mentioned renovations. not once. you did.
Semantics.  It doesn't change the fact that one season after completion, the renovations were already showing signs of being a failure on multiple levels. 
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LenexatoKCMO wrote: Semantics.  It doesn't change the fact that one season after completion, the renovations were already showing signs of being a failure on multiple levels. 
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he did not have sell outs in the los angeles collesium. he moved to the oakland collesium because the city of oakland PROMISED him the games would be sold out. 7 years after he got there, there were no sell outs still, or, not every game. they reovated. same thing, he still only had sporadic sell outs. he sued.

he did not mention renovations.

you did.

do you see the credibility problem with your story? a billionaire owner of the oakland raiders is not asking for a new stadium, but you think he is. end of the day, this news is 5 years old, you can not find ONE real article from recently showing al davis asking for a new stadium. NOT ONE.
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kcdcchef wrote:
do you see the credibility problem with your story? a billionaire owner of the oakland raiders is not asking for a new stadium, but you think he is. end of the day,
I already told you, he isn't "asking" for a new stadium because he knows there isn't any money left in Oakland to build an outhouse, let alone a new stadium.  When it became evident that the renovated stadium in Oakland wasn't going to be a good long term solution, Al's angle was to try and get out of the lease (hence the article you keep discounting); this wasn't for the purpose of getting Oakland to build a new stadium, it was so he get the hell out of town.  He didn't have much luck on getting out of the lease, and in the meantime LA cooled on the idea of handing someone a free stadium.  You think Al is happy in that undercapacity, unprofitable joke of a renovated stadium; selling 55,000 tickets to playoff games and virtually no corporate sales?  If he could find a way out of that lease and there was some other town foolish enough to give him a stadium, AL would be gone tomorrow (6 years after the renovation of his stadium).  I don't think you will find much of any raiders fans or Oakland residents who would disagree with that assessment. 
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