So the company that controls Dayton's demanded special tax breaks and a donation from the government, or they'd close the downtown store. Otherwise I, as a Minnesota resident, would be totally ignorant of exactly how our beloved Dayton's is repaying our loyalty. I could go on about how we obviously need a stronger, larger government to show the large businesses who's boss, but we need to stick to baseball. If they wanted to, they could fund everything on their own and not bat an eyelash. With that in mind, revenue sharing is looking suspiciously like yet another tactic that certain owners will use so that they don't have to put their own money in their teams, or, perish the thought, go into a little debt.
Debt is nothing to be afraid of.
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