[PLUG] The house bill, a possible problem...

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Sat Aug 23 19:58:01 UTC 2003


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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:04:30PM -0700, Phil Tomson wrote:
> I suppose it's similar to the same reason why we can't 
> pump our own gas in Oregon - it's for job protection (essentially it's a 
> welfare program).

Fire Marshall order prevents it, and I think the DEQ has something to
say about it as well.  Not that it matters much, with exception of
right along the Washington state line where there's local price fixing
to give the illusion we're more expensive, we usually run cheaper than
the other pacific states.  And our gas stations are cleaner and don't
knock you over from the fumes because the people pumping know what
they're doing.

> Why don't we just build a baseball stadium to provide jobs (oh, wait
> that's already been proposed) or why not just build roads and
> bridges from inferior materials so we have to rebuild them every few
> years... Oh, wait...

I hope that fails miserably, or someone challenges building a stadium
in court.  Player taxes aren't going to even come close to covering
the interest of the cost of another stadium, much less pay for
itself.  The Expos haven't sold more than 5000 seats a game in years
now, and hardly anybody on that team can hit.  The Portland Beavers
are a much better team and consistantly come close to selling out the
20000 seat Civic Stadium.  So why spend all this money for a 50,000
seat stadium on a shitty team that should really shipped in it's
entirety back to single-A?

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