8% 9% is what the restaurant tax went up to… I was trying to think pessimistically like a Libertarian.

I was going to suggest some names:

“The Tax”

“Millionaire Palace”

“The Soak” (what they did to taxpayers)

“The Debt”

Or maybe if Mr. Lucas doesn’t like “The Luke” it could be “The Oiler”?

And Mike. Libertarian’s don’t think pessimistically, I would argue they know what potential could be unleashed by their policies. And as a Republican, you can’t tell me that things just keep getting better and better? If not for Reagan there wouldn’t be a whole lot to point to at the Presidential level. At least there are Congressmen like Jeff Flake and Ron Paul and that are better than most.

Heck, I think it’s funny that some Republicans might make fun of Libertarians and then worship the most libertarian leaning president of the past 100 year years who wouldn’t have even become president if not for his support in the early 60s of another Libertarian leaning Republican.

I wonder how many people consider the opportunity costs of the Stadium. Going to raise taxes to generate hundreds of millions of dollars to pay principle and debt on a sports stadium. EVEN IF you can convince yourself that it is appropriate to do transfer of wealth from the people to use for other private purposes (like building a place to do business for some company), how many other things could that money have been better applied to?

I like the Colts, but it’s not right that the owners of these sports teams can hold a city hostage over their stadium needs and make threats that lead to taxpayers paying for their place of business. How about we do that for every business? Hey, promise to move or keep your company here and employ some people and we’ll build your office space on the taxpayer dime? What if Lilly threatened to pack up and move their HQ unless the city bought them a new shiny 50 story skyscraper for their headquarters?

If the building was round in any way I think the Oil Can or Can would take off–and be a great name even though it is already used in Columbus, IN. But with it a big rectangle brick building, it doesn’t look much like a can.

Let’s call it “The house that Peyton built”

To whom it may concern,

Can you add detailed info to your site as to how to get to your seats EXACTLY the best way without getting many different answers from vendor, security, and guest services staff not properly trained? I realize everyone working there is working at a new place and these days people are watching bottom dollar and training may not be in the budget. Could you simply place more employees in number and better trained people in tricky spots that you can’t get through. I heard on the news that I could have used the escolator from the club/suite level to get to my seats. I was told those escolators were for suite ticket holders only. The funny thing was we did have suite seats. We ended up just standing and walking around most of the game. I felt like we were speelunking like we were kids and looking for something that didn’t exist. It’s not just the ticket holders and workers that are confused, but was the news channel correct with that info? Our seats were given to me by my boss and were in the 400s. You can not get around that area and getting from floor to floor is a joke. Please help other ticket holders not deal with this same aggrivation. The employees seemed nice, but I felt sorry for them because they seemed short staffed untrained and I saw a lady in a blue and white shirt on the upper level talk very rudely to a man working in a yellow wind breaker in front of everybody. It seems sad that not only were basic staff not trained, but untrained management repremending employees in front of other employees and ticket holders. They spent a ton of tax payers money to build this place. Did they not think about how people would get around this building? Who was in charge of labeling directions and seat numbers? Did they not allow any of the companies running this building training allowances? It is somebody got a lot of money and build this big building with no further thing things through. I am missing the logic of this building! And I won’t even go into parking issues. Has anybody thought about park and ride or shuttle alternatives? Or has anybody thought about anything except for grabbing our cash?

Yours truly,

A miffed Colt’s fan