Mark
I agree with you. There is no way taxes should be used for the stadium. It's a private business and needs private financing.
Jeff
Rep. Jeff Hatch-Miller
Arizona House of Representatives
602-542-5051
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Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 4:19 PM
Subject: Pay up or lose Cards - im sick of corporate welfare
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> > To: groscost@azleg.state.az.us; jhart@azleg.state.az.us;
> > Subject: Pay up or lose Cards - im sick of corporate welfare
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> The title on on the Jan 15, 99 Sat Arizona Republic said
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> "Pay up or lose Cards"
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> I think its about time that Phoenix lose the Cards. I dont
> want the government to steal any more of my hard earned
> money and give it to Bill Bidwell.
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> Im sick of government crooks stealing my tax dollars and giving
> them to Jerry Colangeo or Bill Bidwell. I think you elected
> officals like to call this form of theft by a policitally correct
> name of corporate wellfare. But theft is theft by any name.
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> Im still angry because the City of Phoenix stole my tax dollars
> 10/15 years ago and gave them to Jerry Colangelo to build his
> Phoenix Suns a new stadium at my expense. Despite the fact that
> polls shows the public was 90% against the stadium.
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> I was elited when Phoenix Voters passed a bill that handcuffed
> City of Phoenix officals and forced them to get voter apporval
> before building any projects for Jerry Colangelo.
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> And I was angry when the Arizona Legislator, and now governor
> Jane Hull because they knew Phoenix could not steal our tax
> dollars to build Jerry Colangela a baseball stadium passed a
> special law that allowed Maricopa County elected officials to
> steal our tax dollars and build Jerry C his ballpark.
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> Im still angry and hatefull toward the Maricopa County Supervisors
> because they implemented the state law that allowed them to steal
> hundreds of millions of dollars from Maricopa County Taxpayers
> to build Jerry Collangelo his baseball park. Despite the fact
> that the polls showed voters were 80 to 90 percent against the
> ballpark.
> ball stadium I certainlly will
> be angery and hatefull toward you for the 20 years just as I
> would be toward any other criminal that stole my hard earned money.
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> Im angry now because everytime I rent a car I have to pay $2.50
> a day baseball tax. You should remove the tax totally, not
> jack up the theft rate to a 3% so you can give Bill Bidwell
> a share of my hard earned money.
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> Currently the tourist business in slowing down. You dont need
> to slow it down more by jacking up the hotel tax by 10 percent
> from 5% to 5.5% to give Bill Bidwell a share of my relatives
> income when they visit me from Chicago.
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> And all the other schemes talked about to raise money to build
> Bill Bidwell a stadium are just politically correct names
> for a proposed theft to steal the publics money and give it
> to Bill Bidwell.
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