N.C. Sen. Bob Rucho questions Panthers ticket increases

[sharkkiller]

I can see where he is coming from, in that if they are getting tax breaks, don't blame the increases on higher taxes. It is pretty easy to look and see that a 3% increase in taxes for example would not result in a 10% increase in ticket prices.

 

I think the message is quit bullshitting about why you are increasing ticket prices. Just saying that the price of running the team has increased, so we are increasing ticket prices should be sufficient. 

 

 

[TN05]

Supply side economics is fine in theory, but it can still make for highway robbery by unscrupulous and unethical people, just like the scourge of corporate welfare that has little redeeming value, if any, in regards to helping America reach its true potential. But, I am going to get off my soapbox, as I just merely wanted to spotlight another instance of the epitome of irony.

The majority of supply-side economists (especially libertarians) would agree with you there. I'm a very conservative Republican and I don't see any real value in giving money to corporations... if a company can't survive on its own, why give it money?

[motocross_cat]

I want an explanation for my state taxes going up.....uh, oh wait...

[Jangler]

I want an explanation for my state taxes going up.....uh, oh wait...

potholes.

or hookers.

[motocross_cat]

Haha there are craters in the roads around here.

[motocross_cat]

Ill give you hookers tho.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Bob Rucho is straight-up pure evil, one of the worst politicians North Carolina has seen in the past 25 years. Just wanted to throw that out there for those unaware. 

 

Every stupid thing the state of North Carolina has done since 2010? Bob Rucho has been at the center of LITERALLY ALL OF THEM. Find me one where he wasn't if you don't believe me.

[top dawg]

The majority of supply-side economists (especially libertarians) would agree with you there. I'm a very conservative Republican and I don't see any real value in giving money to corporations... if a company can't survive on its own, why give it money?

Well on that point we can agree. But I might point out that corporate welfare is rarely about survival, as much as it is about finding and creating ways in order to take from taxpayers, many of whom are the really needy, in order to increase the coffers of the greedy. That's just the way I see it, but, again, I am stepping down from the soapbox.

[jayflip]

Do 70,000 people watch a blue-collar worker make a sales call? And do millions more tune in on TV? This isn't that hard to figure out.

I would pay $150.00 to watch SCP make sales.

Or I could turn it around and sell that ticket to Alice for a profit.

[Anybodyhome]

Bob Rucho is straight-up pure evil, one of the worst politicians North Carolina has seen in the past 25 years. Just wanted to throw that out there for those unaware. 

 

Every stupid thing the state of North Carolina has done since 2010? Bob Rucho has been at the center of LITERALLY ALL OF THEM. Find me one where he wasn't if you don't believe me.

 

More than Art Pope? Really? 

 

I'll have to do some reading up...

[Lumps]

If that was the case, where are the decreases when the team sucks like a Hoover? We have more of those seasons (and actually got ticket price increases following horrible seasons) than the good ones, yet we've never gotten a refund or price reduction.

Ah, but you did get an apology letter.

[CatMan72]

Perhaps the honorable gentleman is unfamiliar with the whole concept of capitalism? 

 

 

[Lumps]

Gallon of milk:

1995: $2.96

2015: $3.82

Gas:

95: $1.15

15: $2.70

Movie ticket:

95: $4.35

15: $8.17

[rayzor]

things get more expensive over time.

 

shocker.