@Reez_Delaghetto It’s so frustrating knowing exactly what they’re going to run, and having no counter to it unless you put 46778904 adjustments before you get quick snapped. Hope the macros help with that
@JethroMaccabee@johnarnold 1. A shovel would’ve been in the ground already.
2. NW burbs to the city and NW burbs to Indiana are 2 completely different commutes
@ProsectorPath@esidery Vast majority of the jobs aren’t going to be high wage, and the nearby businesses that’ll benefit the most will still be Chicago
@landon20s@RobertSpearing9 Private businesses getting their nut doesn’t mean much to municipalities riddled in debt and nothing to recoup it with.
We have so many examples where this never works out for the public financially.
This is NOT a failure for the state of Illinois. Stop. Giving. Billionaires. Handouts.
The lawmakers in Indiana are happy to sell out their taxpayers for a stadium that doesn’t bear their name and won’t ever recoup the millions they’ll spend to build and maintain it.
@mkhoops2 Extortion. Bears ownership is cash poor and instead of selling to a group that can build their own stadium, they’re shaking down Illinois for tax breaks and 850 million.
@giajules2000@FlowsAndolini And while I’d dislike that as well, they’d have a much better case when it comes to economic impact. Sports stadiums historically have bad ROI from the public’s pov when they get these sweetheart deals.
@giajules2000@FlowsAndolini Nearly a billion in infrastructure (nearly half the standalone stadium cost) and tax cuts that would have them paying less taxes than a mall.
The Sears tower pays 53 million a year in taxes.
The Westfield mall pays 17 million a year in property taxes.
Bears want less than that mall.
That seems like the "rape" you speak of is reversed.