Legislation being introduced for future funding of American Family Field: UPDATE New lease through 2050

[markedman5]

I know this was expected but good news to see it finalized 

 

[JosephC]

Terrible news.  Would rather see the Brewers and MLB foot the vast majority of this bill.  The Bucks arena was such a huge cash cow for the city and county that all the dumb-dumbs that live there now have the joy of paying a 7.9% sales tax.  Maybe with this new baseball stadium, we can get that number over 10%.

At least this tweet was nice enough to say the government is picking up the entire 500 million dollar tab, which is probably much more accurate than the previous taxpayer = 400 million, Brewers/MLB = 100 million lie that was sold to us earlier.

[markedman5]

Money well spent to keep both the Bucks and the Brewers in the city.

Cost of doing business……as someone who lives here I’m happy to pay it.

[Playing Catch]

9 hours ago, JosephC said:

Terrible news.  Would rather see the Brewers and MLB foot the vast majority of this bill.  The Bucks arena was such a huge cash cow for the city and county that all the dumb-dumbs that live there now have the joy of paying a 7.9% sales tax.  Maybe with this new baseball stadium, we can get that number over 10%.

At least this tweet was nice enough to say the government is picking up the entire 500 million dollar tab, which is probably much more accurate than the previous taxpayer = 400 million, Brewers/MLB = 100 million lie that was sold to us earlier.

I completely understand your viewpoint on this, but the stadium will be there until it's torn down. It "belongs" to the city. The Brewers were, and always will be, simple stewards or lessees of it, like County stadium before it. If the city said to the Brewers, "we aren't renewing your lease, we want to do something else with the stadium," they could do that (I think).

[homer]

I merged the recent posts with the old thread.

[Samurai Bucky]

13 hours ago, JosephC said:

Terrible news.  Would rather see the Brewers and MLB foot the vast majority of this bill.  The Bucks arena was such a huge cash cow for the city and county that all the dumb-dumbs that live there now have the joy of paying a 7.9% sales tax.  Maybe with this new baseball stadium, we can get that number over 10%.

At least this tweet was nice enough to say the government is picking up the entire 500 million dollar tab, which is probably much more accurate than the previous taxpayer = 400 million, Brewers/MLB = 100 million lie that was sold to us earlier.

I'm understanding you to say the reason the sales taxes were increased on January 1, 2024 in the City and Count of Milwaukee was directly attributed to AmFam Field and Fiserv Forum.  Is that what you are claiming?

[patrickgpe]

13 hours ago, JosephC said:

Terrible news.  Would rather see the Brewers and MLB foot the vast majority of this bill.  The Bucks arena was such a huge cash cow for the city and county that all the dumb-dumbs that live there now have the joy of paying a 7.9% sales tax.  Maybe with this new baseball stadium, we can get that number over 10%.

 

There are much bigger reasons than the Brewers on why there was a tax increase. Since this is a politics free board, I'll leave it there. The truth is what players pay in income taxes exceeds the states investment in the team.