The owners can sit there and do giveaways and lower ticket prices to get the fans back to the game knowing that what they are really doing is taking it out of our pockets, ... It`s important to get people back into the arenas to watch hockey, but it is a lot easier to do when (the owners) know they still get money back because they are taking it out of our paycheck. In essence, the players are paying for all the giveaways and free stuff that the owners are doing. Which is all well and good, but you don`t hear about it.
- Jeremy RoenickAs we did the previous two years of this partnership, Rock Financial will do many things to help enhance the game day experience. We`ll be involved in pre-game tailgate parties, ticket giveaways, contests, premium giveaway nights and the Rock Financial parachute drop. We also will provide opportunities for fans to win trips, tickets and merchandise during the broadcasts and in-game.
- David HallThere is a clear choice, whether we invest in our kids or vote to give more tax giveaways to wealthy folks.
- Anne LukasIt really explains a lot. His cavalier attitude towards imprisonment and even death penalties for people who make the same mistakes with drugs he once personally made, his relentless drive to subvert Democracy via election fraud, his removal of basic human rights for all Americans via the Patriot Act, his support of monopolization of all American Business, his tax giveaways to the wealthy while joblessness and poverty are at a level not seen since the days of Herbert Hoover, and his drive towards world domination via a refusal to build consensus with the rest of the world, have all been written off as neo-conservatism, but in reality, even the hardest of right wing ideologies couldn`t account for all of the President`s behavior.
- Anthony McIntyreThere can never be any excuse for sacrificing our children's futures to keep corporate tax loopholes and tax giveaways to millionaires. If we can't put our children first, who can we put first? If we can't put our kids first, what does it say about our nation?
- Senator John Kerry