When he talks about borrowing money today and forcing that debt on the unborn he is literally talking about the very scheme that the Cubs are pushing. That plan calls for the bonds to be paid off over 35 years through amusement taxes.
I saw this on Roger Ebert’s Twitter feed: Joe Ricketts, head of the family that now owns the Chicago Cubs, has spent time and hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money railing about government spending even as the family asked for a $300 million Illinois bond issuance for the renovation of Wrigley Field.