Let me explain to you an element of the Minneapolis population.
They are good people.
Hard working people.
But they wedded themselves in their late teens and early 20's to staying out of the suburbs and staying in the city.
Which is like saying, "I'm not getting on that preppy suburban life boat! I'm staying on this hip Titanic where it's "real."
This unfortunately puts good people like Ed and others I know in the cross-hairs between wanting the benefits of city culture and paying for what is essentially a corrupt municipal government.
Ed has been championing the fight against government financed stadiums in Minnesota for a while now. I usually mock the state as a whole because they keep voting to tax themselves more. But it's particularly ironic when a city that is known to have property taxes increase at over 500% in a decade is now going to help finance the new Viking's stadium.
If you Minneapolitans thought your property taxes were high before.
Heh!
You my fine hipster friends, have no idea how much you're going to be forced to enjoy the decline!
Hope the Sebastian Joe's ice cream is worth it.
This would be like a family that is deeply in debt, and deciding its time to get all new furniture, or some other unneeded expense.
ReplyDeleteI must say my opinion of the NFL has taken a hit. This is corporate welfare, at its absolute worst.