Suite, sweet seating
I want the Marlins to stay in our area, but I'm a bit miffed about how our tax dollars are used to subsidize rich owners and wealthy players. Now it turns out our tax dollars do something more. As part of a deal in the works, city and county commissioners would get suite seating for their support.
Who else gets such preferential treatment? Not the folks paying the taxes apparently.
Who else gets such preferential treatment? Not the folks paying the taxes apparently.
posted by Ana Veciana-Suarez at 8:19 AM
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Here we go again under handed deals in Miami.
It is obvious that our county commissioners do not care about the people and continue to snub their noses at us. By now any normal person would get it, these use their positions for their own greed.
This actually isn't an uncommon practice. Considering that the county will own the stadium and that both governments are paying substantial amounts of money to build it, I see this not as the Marlins giving a suite to the commissioners but them just retaining a suite in the stadium they own. The suite is not costing tax-payers anything extra. It's not too different from when a corporation or group sponsors a team and is given a suite. Also, the suite can serve as a marketing tool to help sell our city to potential investors. It's easy to look at the situation and call it and under-handed deal but when you really look at it, you see that it just doesn't apply.
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