The Texas Rangers have a beautiful, state-of-the-art ballpark. It's only 22 years old. Guess what? The owners want to tear it down and build a new one, ostensibly because of the awful Texas heat. (The proposed ballpark will have a retractable roof.) This will require keeping the sales-tax increment that would otherwise go away, which means it's a tax increase. Why is this happening? You know why. Money. The existing ballpark made millionaires of many people. So will the new one. It's about redistributing wealth from the poor and working classes to the rich. See here for details.
Addendum: If a new ballpark is built at taxpayer expense, I will not enter it, even to see my beloved Rangers. I am sick to death of the wealthy using government to increase their wealth.
Addendum 2: Here is the website of those who support building a new ballpark. Notice the dishonesty of the slogan: "Keep the Rangers With No New Taxes." The first part, "Keep the Rangers," implies that, if voters turn down the tax increase, the team will move out of Arlington, perhaps to Dallas or another suburb. I don't take kindly to threats, and I doubt that many people do. Second, "With No New Taxes" is misleading. As I said in the post above, the old tax is about to expire. If the new ballpark is built, this tax will continue. How is that not a new tax? When rich people resort to manipulative rhetoric, you know they're desperate to increase their wealth at everyone else's expense.
