TheTopOfRobDemovskysHead

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*Just the top and back. Not the whole head. Like Voldemort in the first movie.*

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@FailingJef74011 @ProFootballTalk Netting $15m for Arlington heights is awesome if you live in Arlington Heights. But the entire state is going to be paying for this, not just Arlington Heights.

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@FailingJef74011 @ProFootballTalk No, there isn't. Sports stadiums don't retain value the way other property does, and study after study proves that the local economy will essentially break even over the next 20 years. Economists overwhelmingly agree that this is a terrible idea.

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@FailingJef74011 @ProFootballTalk It's not OK. It's that simple.

"Some people at some point in time were ok with squandering billions, so everyone should be ok with it now" is not a valid argument.

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@TXHillbilly66 @Acyn The same day he said it was private funding, he had Republicans in Congress literally pushing a bill to have our taxes pay for the ballroom. There is god damn video of Mike Johnson explicitly stating that it should be publicly funded. Are you stubborn or just fucking stupid?

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@barroyo2374 @Acyn All we can see is your eyes and we can still tell you're ugly as fuck, so I'm not surprised you know all about the red light district. Maybe if you stop being such a piece of shit human being, a woman might actually speak to you without having to pay her first

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@adam_smasha @Acyn "Not seeing a direct link"

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@jimmy1220x @Acyn No president in modern history has had a higher rate of government spending per person than Donald Trump.

It's absolutely insane that people are so uneducated that they can say Republicans are the fiscally responsible party and do it with a straight face.

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@FailingJef74011 @ProFootballTalk If public stadiums and infrastructure are privately funded, they are good (not great) for the local economy.

But when you reach close to $1b in public funding, all financial benefits go out the window.

This is a fact that has been proven over and over again.

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@ksummerwine @ChrisMurphyCT The NCAA lost all of their battles against the players association, so they went to the government to save them

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@FailingJef74011 @ProFootballTalk "Pritzker wastes money all the time so you're not allowed to complain" is the dumbest thing ever. It's also an admission that you don't have a valid reason to support this.

Pritzker is an ass but that does nothing to change the facts: it's a bad investment.

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@FailingJef74011 @ProFootballTalk No, my statement is based on the fact that they are requesting to pay a significantly lower property tax rate than anyone else.

"But Pritzker wastes money all the time!" Ok? I agree he sucks, but WTF does that have to do with this being a terrible public investment?

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@FailingJef74011 @ProFootballTalk The Bears are requesting nearly $1b in public funding for infrastructure (the parking lots and roads around the stadium). Also, they don't want certainty--they want massive tax breaks that they don't deserve or need.

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@ixnayamscray @ProFootballTalk The Bears are requesting nearly a billion dollars AND massive tax breaks.

Also, I'm gonna be honest here: the practice is widely accepted because most people are financially illiterate. Not a single economist worth their salt would say it's a good investment.

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@DaWheels_1 @JamesPappas @ProFootballTalk Happy reading
https://t.co/p1Wb5rzRyp

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@Drcredeibl @DaWheels_1 @JamesPappas @ProFootballTalk Conor is fundamentally incapable of believing that someone could be against BOTH Pritzker and his fellow billionaires that own teams. He thinks if we don't want to fund billionaires construction projects, then we must love Pritzker.

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@DaWheels_1 @JamesPappas @ProFootballTalk Nope.

All available evidence says it's only a good thing if the public DOESN'T find it. As soon as the public is on the hook for that money, all financial benefits of having those stadiums go out the window.

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@DaWheels_1 @ProFootballTalk $850m for the stadium or $850m for the infrastructure around the stadium is the same God damn thing, Conor. And 100% it will be from the taxpayers.

Also, I genuinely hate Pritzker, but facts are facts: this is a bad investment.

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@DaWheels_1 @JamesPappas @ProFootballTalk "You're such a shill for people that hate you"

-A guy who wants taxpayers to help pay for a billionaire's stadium, despite the fact that no evidence on the planet says it's a good investment

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@DaWheels_1 @ProFootballTalk Conor, the Bears are asking for nearly $1b in public funding.

You don't have to make this more complicated just because they're spending it on the land outside of the stadium rather than the stadium itself.