No stadium. Now what?

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Since we are pointing out errors in the name of digression:
That depends entirely on the interest rate you are paying for the car loan.  If you are paying 0% interest then it is most certainly NOT more financially sound to pay cash.

Put another way: if I have $12,000 in my hand, and can choose buy a car outright or finance it at 0%, financing is the better option.  I can take the ~$10k I have left (after down payment and such) and invest it, and any money I make is net profit over having paid cash for the car.

If you're going to nitpick, do it right.

Very very rare, will zero % financing come without giving something else up. 

E.g. The ad in today's paper -- 0% financing OR cash $2000 rebate.

Unless you can make $2000 with your investment you would still be better off paying the less cash.   

[MikeO]

http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/thedailydolphin/2013/06/24/report-dolphins-owner-ross-forms-pac-throws-money-against-lawmakers-who-quashed-stadium-vote/

Ross is still pissed...lol

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/thedailydolphin/2013/06/24/report-dolphins-owner-ross-forms-pac-throws-money-against-lawmakers-who-quashed-stadium-vote/

Ross is still pissed...lol

Okay, so instead of spending his own money to finance the stadium, he is going to spend that money defeating politicians who oppose spending tax dollars on billionaire welfare. 

He is what is wrong with America. 

[Sunstroke]

^^^ That would be one way of looking at it, I suppose.

Another way could be... Instead of spending his own money on a stadium to help Miami make a shitload of money off of major events like the Super Bowl, etc..., he's decided to use some of his vast fortune to combat politicians that he feels are corrupt and shouldn't be in office any more.

For the record...he's "always" been very active in supporting politicians whose goals mirror his own, as well as being very active in financing opposition to those whose goals conflict with his.

[Spider-Dan]

Okay, so instead of spending his own money to finance the stadium, he is going to spend that money defeating politicians who oppose spending tax dollars on billionaire welfare.

I'm pretty sure he's not going to spend $350 million (the size of the referendum package that was quashed) on PACs, so it's not quite apples-to-apples.

He already spent $10 million to fund the-vote-that-never-happened.  If he can spend another $20 million to run out the politicians that blocked him, $30M is still a hell of a lot less than $350M.

[masterfins]

Okay, so instead of spending his own money to finance the stadium, he is going to spend that money defeating politicians who oppose spending tax dollars on billionaire welfare. 

He is what is wrong with America. 

Normally i would agree with you...but these guys strung him along AND made him waste $10 MILLION DOLLARS, for a vote they then wouldn't let occur.  Had Ross just been told no from the outset, that it wasn't financially viable, THEN I would have a problem with what he is doing.

Politicians such as the ones who quashed the vote for their own personal reasons are also what's wrong with America.

[Landshark]

Politicians such as the ones who quashed the vote for their own personal reasons are also what's wrong with America.

I agree here.  In other countries,  Weatherford would be known as a dictator.

[Sunstroke]

In other countries, Weatherford's car would explode when he turned the key in the ignition...

[Fau Teixeira]

In other countries, Weatherford's car would explode when he turned the key in the ignition...

You say this in semi-jest but in Europe if a politician messes with a soccer team they're guaranteed to not receive votes from those fans.

[Sunstroke]

^^^ I can only imagine that Weatherford, after messing with the Dolphins here, will not get votes from some Dolphins fans...

...and there was no jest, semi or full-blown, in my previous comment.

[Landshark]

In other countries, Weatherford's car would explode when he turned the key in the ignition...

That might happen here too if you piss off the wrong people