So we’re being a little facetious, but only because we’re interested in what sort of twisted Google strings will lead folks here. However, it really does seem that if everyone in town has pretty solid analysis (there’s a bunch more out there, but why bother linking? There will be a new one tomorrow for Dan Doctoroff to ignore, including one from City Comptroller-cum- mayoral candidate William Thompson, due any day now) to support the patently obvious: namely, that tax dollars shouldn’t guarantee nor subsidize sports stadia. It’s a little lost in the muddle of $4 million dollars worth of advertising (which pitches the Dolans versus the Johnsons; just who is Goliath in this one?), but pretty much 100% of the cost of the proposed Jets stadium is dependent upon John Q. Public (the Jets will finance using bonds guaranteed by the city so they get a sweet rate).
Given that the combined net worth of the RWJ IV, Bloomberg and the Dolans would cover the cost of a mixed unit development that would pander to everyone’s particular franchise needs, why don’t they do it all street, and you know, buy the land and pay for it themselves? Up next: my mother issues a position paper on the absurdity and patent racism of claiming that the stadium will be good for the Latino community cause there will be all those peanut vending opportunities.
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Naked Cowboy releases study showing Jets stadium poor investment.
So we’re being a little facetious, but only because we’re interested in what sort of twisted Google strings will lead folks here. However, it really does seem that if everyone in town has pretty solid analysis (there’s a bunch more out there, but why bother linking? There will be a new one tomorrow for Dan Doctoroff to ignore, including one from City Comptroller-cum- mayoral candidate William Thompson, due any day now) to support the patently obvious: namely, that tax dollars shouldn’t guarantee nor subsidize sports stadia. It’s a little lost in the muddle of $4 million dollars worth of advertising (which pitches the Dolans versus the Johnsons; just who is Goliath in this one?), but pretty much 100% of the cost of the proposed Jets stadium is dependent upon John Q. Public (the Jets will finance using bonds guaranteed by the city so they get a sweet rate).
Given that the combined net worth of the RWJ IV, Bloomberg and the Dolans would cover the cost of a mixed unit development that would pander to everyone’s particular franchise needs, why don’t they do it all street, and you know, buy the land and pay for it themselves? Up next: my mother issues a position paper on the absurdity and patent racism of claiming that the stadium will be good for the Latino community cause there will be all those peanut vending opportunities.