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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2068861, member: 780"] Without seeing the books, I'd be reluctant to agree things are anywhere near as some think. But let's not rewrite history here. That $15.2 M was straight up Pork Barrel spending. It was a trade-off to get the support of Upstate pols for Downstate spending on other Pork Barrel projects. This was reported in the Press at the time. The expansion / improvement of the Dome doesn't increase capacity and the tax revenue associated with capacity. Sounds suspiciously like more spending to achieve the same --- or nearly the same --- revenue. But to the extent that this expansion/improvement rests on getting a lot of tax dollars, count me as being skeptical. The "optics" of this are not good. Except to SU fans. [/QUOTE]