Metro Area Subsidizes Outstate Road and Bridge Construction

[iNviNciBL3]

Originally Posted by mr roboto

And to thank the metro for their subsidies the Outstate Republicans are trying to block federal funding of the SW light rail. Can't make this up.

Its not just outstate Republicans

[mr roboto]

Originally Posted by PullMyFinger

Because it's a waste of money. You can thank the republicans for saving you from that someday.

Lol yeah ok.

[Mason3000]

Originally Posted by Thedosius

I'm not objecting to it. My point in posting this is because in this forum and elsewhere there is a persistent but fact- free meme that outstate Minnesota props up the metro area, whereas the facts are 100% the reverse.

Links?

[601halfdozen0theother]

Let's talk about your boondoggle STADIUM and my tax dollars . . .

And as a former resident of the Arrowhead I can say factually that the northern MN roads are clogged with idiots from the Metro gawping at "nature" from the safety of their speeding air conditioned gas guzzlers as they try to push the locals off the roads.

Fork over the dough, urbanites.

[Unsettomati]

Originally Posted by Thedosius

I'm not objecting to it. My point in posting this is because in this forum and elsewhere there is a persistent but fact- free meme that outstate Minnesota props up the metro area, whereas the facts are 100% the reverse.

Originally Posted by Mason3000

Links?

Since you won't read the thread - all 2+ pages of it - I'll post a sampling yet again.

Originally Posted by my54ford

wait till the rich boy slaps on that 6 cent gas tax to fix the roads and bridges in the metro....

//www.city-data.com/forum/38262199-post4.html

Originally Posted by gearedtowardssalad

If you live in the rural parts of the state, for instance, most of your tax dollars are probably being used to fund and subsidize things going on in the twin cities.

//www.city-data.com/forum/29327673-post25.html

And last but not least...

Originally Posted by 601halfdozen0theother

How would the Twin Cities ever survive financially without all the money siphoned off there from the Iron Range?

What would Northern Minnesota do if it were to get to keep the money generated in the area instead of losing most of it to the Urban metro?

//www.city-data.com/forum/44736399-post4.html

Originally Posted by 601halfdozen0theother

Let's talk about your boondoggle STADIUM and my tax dollars . . .

And as a former resident of the Arrowhead I can say factually that the northern MN roads are clogged with idiots from the Metro gawping at "nature" from the safety of their speeding air conditioned gas guzzlers as they try to push the locals off the roads.

Fork over the dough, urbanites.

Ah, the raging entitlement...

At least you've abandoned your bogus assertion that there's some sort of net outflow of cash from Northern Minnesota to the Metro. Baby steps.

PS - Instead of whining about tourists in Northern Minnesota, why don't you stop electing officials that spend gobs of money luring non-Northern Minnesotans to come to Northern Minnesota? On second thought, don't do that - without that tourism cash, it'd take even more metro largesse to keep your local jurisdictions solvent. Whine away!

About 80 percent of Cook County’s economy is based on tourism—the highest percentage of any county in Minnesota.

Visit Cook County now has a $1.8 million budget to promote the county. The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s resort and casino also contributes funding, though it’s not subject to the lodging tax.

Working with Duluth marketing agency Giant Voices and Twin Cities public relations firm Lin PR, Visit Cook County focused its marketing efforts this year on the Twin Cities metro area and Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Can Cool Cook County Stay Hot?

Tourism is "paying for the investment that's been happening in our community," said Duluth Chamber of Commerce President David Ross, "with the hotels and the brew houses and all of these wonderful attractions that we as citizens of Duluth enjoy while the tab is being picked up by visitors."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/06/16/duluth-tourism

PPS - I don't live in the metro. But I do live in a county that sends more money to St. Paul than it receives in return (unlike Northern Minnesota). But as I've said before, I don't have a problem with this - though I do have a problem with people who falsely deny it, especially those who go so far as to claim the opposite.

[Mason3000]

Originally Posted by Unsettomati

Since you won't read the thread - all 2+ pages of it - I'll post a sampling yet again.


//www.city-data.com/forum/38262199-post4.html


//www.city-data.com/forum/29327673-post25.html

And last but not least...


//www.city-data.com/forum/44736399-post4.html



Ah, the raging entitlement...

At least you've abandoned your bogus assertion that there's some sort of net outflow of cash from Northern Minnesota to the Metro. Baby steps.

PS - Instead of whining about tourists in Northern Minnesota, why don't you stop electing officials that spend gobs of money luring non-Northern Minnesotans to come to Northern Minnesota? On second thought, don't do that - without that tourism cash, it'd take even more metro largesse to keep your local jurisdictions solvent. Whine away!




Can Cool Cook County Stay Hot?


https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/06/16/duluth-tourism

PPS - I don't live in the metro. But I do live in a county that sends more money to St. Paul than it receives in return (unlike Northern Minnesota). But as I've said before, I don't have a problem with this - though I do have a problem with people who falsely deny it, especially those who go so far as to claim the opposite.

Lighten up Frances.

[601halfdozen0theother]

Vote for me, and I'll build a wall around the Metro Area.

It will be UUUGE wall!

It will be a BEAUTIFUL wall!

And, best of all, I'll make the Metro Area pay for it!