11. More important, there is no immutable law that says stadium financing deals must be heavily sweetened with public subsidies or taxpayer support in any form. 12. Means-testing is a misplaced idea that would discard the venerable principle of equal access to public facilities and possibly undermine taxpayer support for public education. 13. Of particular concern in the Armey amendment is language which has been interpreted as a mandate for taxpayer support of religious programs. 14. Other language in the proposed amendment has been interpreted as a mandate for taxpayer support of religious programs. 15. Surely artists would be freer to shock if unworried by the loss of taxpayer support. 16. The constitutional point is that those women who are qualified and interested ought to have an equal chance with men to participate in an institution that gets taxpayer support. 17. The financing scheme, designed to win taxpayer support, has given Atlanta an overwhelmingly corporate feel. 18. The idea behind taxpayer support of political races is to remove, or limit, the influence of special interests. 19. There is recent precedent for taxpayer support of a sports facility in Fort Worth-Dallas. 20. Today, Romanian public television and radio networks more closely resemble the American and Western European models, with taxpayer support for broadcasting but independence of content. |