ReAL Salt Lake is at it again.

I read an interesting story in The Deseret News today about the whole ReAL Salt Lake stadium mess. Long time readers of my blog will remember that I think the conditions for the stadium's approval using taxpayer dollars was wrong. Well, it seems that despite having been given $35 million by the county for the stadium (which the county was forced to give) Sandy City wants another $10 million dollars of tax dollars to help with the stadium. County mayor Coroon said no! I'm glad he did.

I don't like how RSL and Sandy and think they can just take endless taxpayer money for this private enterprise. One comment on the article called it corporate socialism and not capitalism. That's about right.

I particularly liked a few of Coroon's comments. He said:
"Given that the state has already used $35 million of Salt Lake County's transient room tax revenue for contribution to the soccer stadium project, I don't feel that it is in the best interest of the citizens for the county to contribute more revenue to the project,"
and
"We have nothing against Sandy but we felt that we've studied the project and weren't supportive of it in the beginning and didn't feel we should provide any additional funding other than what the state had taken from us,"

I really like the last part about "other than what the state had taken from us". Anyways, read the whole article.