[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by calisoccer99

Also unr gets the same amount of funding that UNLV does, and UNLV is a much larger school. The south should have much more power than it does now.

Well if we would stop electing governors from northern Nevada, we might not have that problem. But we keep doing it.

[CGarrett]

How do people keep forgetting that the visitors who stay at the hotels are the tax payers, not the citizens of the city. The minute anyone hears the word 'tax' they have a knee jerk reaction and fight it relentlessly. The San Diego Chargers are copying the Vegas proposal with the Raiders and implementing an increase in the local hotel tax to contribute to their new stadium and I don't hear people loading their guns ready to fight down in SD.

Anyhow, would it make a difference if, in addition to the actual stadium being built, part of the deal is to update the freeways and infrastructure around the stadium, inserting a light rail to/from the stadium (that is also used by the general public to travel through the city), solving the UNLV stadium issue, and updating the civic center? If all of those other issues were addressed using the new tax money, would it then be worth it to you to have the hotel tax raised and used to fund this project?

[Merrily Gather]

From our neighbors in the North.

Our view: Block Las Vegas Raiders stadium deal

[calisoccer99]

Originally Posted by Merry Lee Gather

From our neighbors in the North.

Our view: Block Las Vegas Raiders stadium deal

reno needs to go away... California can have them or Idaho

[LasVegasPlayer]

Originally Posted by CGarrett

The San Diego Chargers are copying the Vegas proposal with the Raiders and implementing an increase in the local hotel tax to contribute to their new stadium and I don't hear people loading their guns ready to fight down in SD.

I don't think this is accurate at all. If all of the undecided respondents in this poll voted for the San Diego stadium, it would still lose by 7 points. In addition to that, 67% disapprove of how the Chargers have handled the situation while only 12% approve. It is going to lose in a landslide as public sentiment is overwhelmingly opposed to public funding of the stadium there.

Chargers stadium poll | SanDiegoUnionTribune.com

[beachhead]

Originally Posted by calisoccer99

reno needs to go away... California can have them or Idaho

That sort of "anti-tax and spend" mentality does not play well in commiefornia, they wouldn't fit in with the oppressive largess with other peoples money there. On the other side of the coin, this is a good thing for Nevada.

[Bruff]

In November, San Diego will go to the polls to decide whether or not it’ll let its local NFL team, the Chargers, build a $1.8 billion stadium-convention center in the heart of the city. Most of the project will get backed by public dollars, with $1.15 billion getting funded through a 4 percentage point tax hike on the city’s hotel tax. The remaining $650 million will get financed through private backing from the team owner and others.

Sound familiar? Except here, where they want to build an more expensive stadium (what, $2.5B now?), We The People don't get to vote: it's a state-appointed group of flunkies. Flunkies always buy the most expensive money can buy.

Is that 'right'?

[BBMW]

How often do they let you vote on how your (tax) money is spent? Why would this be any different.

[calisoccer99]

It would be a tourist tax, so no.

[Cold Warrior]

I'll let my representatives vote on it. That's what I elected them to do.