God Bless Texas

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$60 million for a football stadium.

Now lets' see that Connecticut waste. What are you comparing this to?

Well that 60 million is misleading as for one it was locally funded by a community that could afford it. Two it will generate it's own revenue which will offset some of it's costs so it's hard to say what it's final total cost is.

Do I really need to dig up line items in the CT budget to point to? The whole thing is ripe with wastes that it's a waste of my time to start singling things out. I worked there, I saw how they do business. Each one of the state senators and representatives are all fighting to "bring back the bacon" and that has resulted in the 2nd highest tax per capita state in the Union with it only becoming worse as we have a populace who seems to be totally fine with that model. They're still struggling for more money as well as they gave us the largest tax hike since the income tax a couple of years ago and now they're talking tolls. But sure, we'll sit here like smug dbags and arrogantly smirk at a state that has it's fiscal house in order and has the actual money to go and splurge on a football stadium because that's what the people there actually want and they can actually afford it.

 

[upstater]

Well that 60 million is misleading as for one it was locally funded by a community that could afford it. Two it will generate it's own revenue which will offset some of it's costs so it's hard to say what it's final total cost is.

It can't generate anywhere near the money it needs to generate to cover $60 million in bonds. It just can't do it.

Do I really need to dig up line items in the CT budget to point to? The whole thing is ripe with wastes that it's a waste of my time to start singling things out. I worked there, I saw how they do business. Each one of the state senators and representatives are all fighting to "bring back the bacon" and that has resulted in the 2nd highest tax per capita state in the Union with it only becoming worse as we have a populace who seems to be totally fine with that model. They're still struggling for more money as well as they gave us the largest tax hike since the income tax a couple of years ago and now they're talking tolls. But sure, we'll sit here like smug dbags and arrogantly smirk at a state that has it's fiscal house in order and has the actual money to go and splurge on a football stadium because that's what the people there actually want and they can actually afford it.

I never said there is no waste in Connecticut.

 

[BlueDogs]

I never said there is no waste in Connecticut.

660 Million for a bus lane from New Britiain to Hartford which will operate at a projected 3MM a year loss makes a 60MM high school stadium with rveenue to cover operating costs look brillant. One would think after 20 years plus of the same Democrat idiots running this State and padding the pockets of their state employee union buddies with our tax dollars, folks would wake up. Its a crying shame what has been done to Connecticut. The most laughable irony is many retired state workers, cops, firefighters and teachers flee the satae when they get their pensions because of ...taxes. They head to Florida, Tennessee and Texas while we get stuck paying the freight.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

A couple years ago we went down to visit family in Houston and then drove to my dad's alma mater (Texas A&M). The Texas boonies are an interesting place. Miles and miles of nothing but cows and then a 15-20k seat football stadium smack dab in the middle of nowhere. It's a different world down there.