(Groucho at podium in front of a large banquet room filled with developers): "Okay my next question- is there any of you in this room willing to put up their corporations' or own money- without ANY form of tax abatements- incentives or like taxpayer welfare to build and operate a 1,000-room convention headquarters hotel in Downtown Kansas City Missouri?"
(Camera shot of audience members looking at each other)
GM: "Anyone- a show of hands will do..."
(Camera shot of audience members looking at each other)
GM: "Is there anybody at all?"
"A nod- a sneeze- any takers for this 1000 room folly- I mean hotel?"
"You get your own penthouse-walls papered with failed mortgages from bankrupted citizens and fine furniture upholstered in hung foreskins..."
(Camera shot of audience members looking at each other)
GM: "Alrightly now we're getting nowhere!
Okay my last question- how many of you would be interested in building the hotel if you only had to invest half your own dough or less and get a check from the City if not enough cheating spouses are booking enough rooms to keep you solvent- PLUS the penthouse?"
(Camera shot of excited audience- knocking over tables- chairs and each other to get to podium.)
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