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Salt Lake County funds to help stadium?

In no way should the county continue to give money to Sandy for the amphitheater if that funding was supposed to stop this year. Sandy has already gotten enough of our money.

Didn't we go over this yesterday?

Why not take money from the Sandy City employees bonus fund they give to them selfs? When the soccer team folds in a few years this city is going to see itself as the @#$#& we see them as now.

If SLCo has to give its hotel tax revenues to Sandy, why doesn't it just drop the hotel tax, boosting tourism to SLCo and sticking it to Sandy and the legislature at the same time? I'm sure there would be a price, but as the commercials say, some things are priceless!

Corroon is very good at having it both ways. On the one hand, he tells people that he opposes taxpayer funding for the stadium, then he comes up with a way for Real to get the money anyway.

I still say Sandy ought to use their leadership bonuses. That is a lot more than the $300,000 they are asking from the county.

County leaders: Don't send any more $$$ to Sandy. What about other (non-Sandy, and non-Draper) communities with amphitheatres?

Sandy leaders are just whiners and want to be something they will never be..downtown.

I found 2 quotes in this article great.

"Jordan School District officials have already made it clear that they will not forgo their cut of property tax dollars for the multimillion-dollar stadium"

What a twist. It was Real who promised JSD that they would not even ask them for the money. JSD never even had to make a decision.

"However, quality of life issues may justify continued public financing."

This is how I have felt all along. It is not about the economic gains as much as the quality of life. This is the same reason we use taxes to build zoos, parks, monuments, etc.

Send soccer back to the Third World where it belongs! I predict that the MLS will be history within 5 years. Another thing, why can't the Salt Lake team come up with an ENGLISH NAME? What is a Real?

Corroon is correct in refusing any more county tax money for this monster. I think he should also say NO to the amphitheater funds too. If Sandy wants all of these facilities, then they should use their own tax base to pay for them. Sandy will then be holding the bag when the so called soccer team jumps ship and leaves town, it will happen.
As for Jordan School Dist., good on them for saying no. Their tax money is for schools not stadiums.

Call it the Osama bin Soccer Stadium... no matter what you can't kill the flow of tax dollars to it.

i have no issue with the county funding a theatreor playhouse but it should avoid at all costs this super heavy weight white elephant known as soccer. this was a losing venture from the start. the team owners should be the ones securing the funds for a stadium. tax payer money has NO business being spent on stadiums. there are better uses for that money.

MLS has been around for 12 years now. It isn't folding, and soccer in this country isn't going away. Demographics alone will dictate that.

You in Salt Lake are lucky the stadium is being built. Portland, Miami, Atlanta, St. Louis, Vancouver, Montreal, and Las Vegas would all gladly take the team off your hands.

Honestly, from the comments here it's amazing MLS gave a team to such a backward, reactionary community. You're complaining about a hotel tax for crying out loud.

This is a ridiculous boondoggle. Real Salt Lake will flounder -- attendance will be sparse, and somehow I doubt lilly-white sandy residents will support the team. When Real folds -- and it will -- then perhaps we can shed some light on the backroom deals, and backslapping that went on under Brother Huntsman's watch.

What? Corroon is the mayor of Salt Lake County?!? And here I thought he was just another jilted junior high-school girl. Seriously, as an outsider, I have to laught at how much Corroon and his little spat with Sandy is embarassing Salt Lake County. He almost makes Utah County look good by comparison.

"Modernity:" Don't be so patronizing, and don't have such a narrow view. Taxes are taxes and it all comes from our pockets, one way or another. Increasing hotel taxes here, if successful, will encourage other municipalities to increase their taxes. We all lose.

To "Join Us":

I'm so grateful MLS honored us so wonderously.

Not!

MLS will continue to thrive in Utah and on the continent. Residents will look back at the great foresight of Dave Checketts and Gov. Huntsman in taking a risk to make a stadium happen. The hotel tax is paid for mostly by people from out of state - a tax we pay (and much higher I might add) anytime we travel somewhere else. As the stadium and associated development contributes into the tax coffers the government entities will be glad they took the risk. Carroon may even try to take credit for his "support"! He is after all a politician.
Go Real Salt Lake!

Corroon better lay a big wet one on Sandy. The County knows it has a lot more at stake than the $6m in property tax. They are damaging public safety by creating a duplicative 9-1-1 system, they renege on their obligations to the Expo Center, they delay improvements to the library system and divert funds away, they sink more into the Salt Palace money pit, and on and on and on. Corroon belives he is king of the county. Too bad this make up had to be forced on him by the hand of the legislature he felt rising up to slap him down. Its all posturing and self-preservation.

When are you people going to ever get it? We in the legislature know what's best for you, NOT YOU! You're more than welcome to express your petty opposition to our ideas but in the end, we always win. Defeat vouchers, we'll take away your school funding, take money from our soccer stadium, we'll steal from your road funds. Try and defeat us and we'll change the rules so your candidates can't make it out of convention. Get a clue, you can't win so you might as well get in line!

Good work last night men. Now it's time for the Galaxy to get theirs.

Can't wait until we are out of the embarassing Rice Eccles and into "The Bucket".

Go RSL!