Twins ballpark proposal

I get upset when I hear our elected officals trying to do everything they can to kill the Twins proposal. While it may not be the best proposal, it is now or never and we need to embrace it and look foward to watching the Twins in a "ballpark". I am sick of the arugments people make against public support of stadiums for pro-teams. Why can't these owners pay for the whole thing themselves, do you hear that when we give corporations like Northwest Airlines(who is stoping serving pretzels and maybe in the future beverages to save money) bailouts? While it might be nice to take this stance if we don't do it, another city will. Should't we spend this money on things like education and poverty? Consider the tax revenue not only from the money spent at the stadium and at businesses around it, but also the income tax the players pay to the state. so indirectly the stadium does help fund these things. The need for a referendum on this proposal, look at the NWA example and Excelsior Henderson (who is no longer in busines) and all the failed referendums for education. plus this is not a property tax increse its a sales tax that is so small you will not even notice it.

one last thing is when there is talk about the Twins or Vikings leaving, people ask if the twin cities want to become a cold Omaha? Is Omaha that bad of a place to live?