Speaker and Minneapolis Resident Margaret Anderson Kelleher Goes for Mall Boondoggle at the Expense of Her Home Town
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Peter Tharaldson
Date:
Apr 30 15:03 UTC
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I agree with the Eva and Brandon on this one...subsidies for corporations are
seem to have fleeting benefits.
On the other side, while keeping my principles in hand, I wish we could
transfer the subsidies from the ball park to the mall. It is actually a far
more beneficial investment of our economy than a ballpark (this is assuming
that ballpark money is already being captured). The MOA provides multiple the
exposure for Minneapolis (even though it is not located here) than does the
ballpark. It actually does bring people to the state that would not come to
spend their limited entertainment dollars.
So...I am against these types of subsidies...but I would point out that if
the state/county/city were in business of making business...that the MOA is a
far far better investment than the ballpark...It is too bad we could not rip
that money away from an already started ballpark (darn) and use it on a better
investment (or on no investment like this at all).
Peter Tharaldson
CD5 Chair IPMN
Loring Park
"W. Brandon Lacy Campos" <<email obscured>> wrote:
God bless you Eva, it doesn't happen often, but I agree with Ms.
Young. Public subsidy for corporate mega business on the back of
taxpayers when folks are losing their homes and unemployment rates
aren't getting any lower seems to me to be about the dumbest,
anti-citizen move government can make.
And I don't want to hear bullswiggle about job creation. The long term
jobs created by this project, beyond the construction jobs, will be
low-wage, non-livable wage, non-benefit positions.
Of course, if tax subsidies were attached to a provision requiring
that the Mall and its tentants pay a livable wage and provide for the
formation of a union for its workers, then I would gladly pay the
extra tax.
-Brandon Lacy Campos
-Phillips/Midtown
a Young :
> From the Strib
>
> http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/18371794.html
>
> Both House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, and
> House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, were greeted with
> applause as they spoke in a State Capitol rotunda crowded with
> sign-waving construction workers wearing hard hats. Kelliher said
> afterward that she expects the mall's $2.1 billion proposal -- which
> includes public subsidies -- to be part of a conference committee tax
> bill that will be presented to Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
>
> Today's events made it likely that the House Taxes Committee -- whose
> chairwoman, Rep., Ann Lenczewski, opposes the public subsidy component
> -- would be bypassed as the mall's supporters seek to move the
> proposal through the Legislature.
>
> Rep. Michael Nelson, DFL-Brooklyn Park, House author of the public
> financing piece of the mall proposal, said it was unlikely the plan
> would be introduced in Lenczewski's committee in order to avoid a
> defeat that would slow its momentum. "I'm not sure there are enough
> votes there," Nelson said.
>
> EY: Both deserve derision. It appears that there isn't a tax subsidy
> at the expense of Minneapolis, Margaret Anderson Kelliher doesn't
> like, and Marty Seifert claims to oppose tax increases. This moves
> the tax burden from the Mall to everyone else in the tax district -
> including property tax payers.
>
> Call your legislators to tell them to vote NO on this bill.
> Government should NOT be in the business of picking winners and
> losers. In this case, Margaret Anderson Kelliher decided to sell the
> Minneapolis Taxpayer over the river, while the Mall Owners and
> Developers are laughing all the way to the bank.
>
> And Minneapolis Taxpayer's are holding the bag.
>
> Eva Young
> Lloydletta's Nooz
> http://lloydletta.blogspot.com
>
> Eva Young
> Near North, Minneapolis
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