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Public Funding of Sports Stadiums

Will their be more rejections of publicly funded sports arenas in the future?


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Tax payers should not be propping stadiums especially when those tax payers are going to get charged for usage. Its like making everybody pay for a house and to maintain that house and then telling everyone who is paying for it that if they want to use it then they have to pay for it again.

The best compromise I've heard comes from the Vikings stadium proposal where the increases in sales taxes to pay for the new stadium are mostly on football fans. Ticket surcharge, merchandise and concessions, parking...that sort of thing.

At least the tax comes on those who want it.
 
The best compromise I've heard comes from the Vikings stadium proposal where the increases in sales taxes to pay for the new stadium are mostly on football fans. Ticket surcharge, merchandise and concessions, parking...that sort of thing.

At least the tax comes on those who want it.

Not a bad approuch. I still think that the money made and paid to owners, coaches and players is way to high. Cut salaries and use part of the revenue to fund thier own sprorts facilities. Think about it, if the NFL had to build their own stadiums with no taxpayer money, they would be more loyal to the market they build in. As it is now, proffessional sports use the threat of "we will move" if you don't give us x. As an example I would not be surprised to see the Arizona Coyotes (NHL) move in the next few years sticking Glendale with an ice rink.

For those of you who support tax payer funded sports facilities. Would you support tax funds going to NASCAR, proffessional golf, horse racing? NASCAR brings in more money to Arizona than the NFL does. Yet the track was made from private dollars.
 
As an example I would not be surprised to see the Arizona Coyotes (NHL) move in the next few years sticking Glendale with an ice rink.

Where will they go? Not back to Winnipeg anymore. (It's the Phoenix Coyotes anyway. For some reason they and the Suns use "Phoenix" instead of "Arizona")

For those of you who support tax payer funded sports facilities. Would you support tax funds going to NASCAR, proffessional golf, horse racing? NASCAR brings in more money to Arizona than the NFL does. Yet the track was made from private dollars.

Wait for the next track. As it stands here, the state props up the horse races anyway. When the state government shut down, there were no races.
 
The public shouldn't fund sports stadiums. Instead of spending hundreds of millions into projects that will either rot away, or will concentrate on a few people playing games, that kind of money should be spent on feeding people, helping people find jobs, or something other worthwhile.
The private industry can plenty fund its own sport stadiums, and if given the grants, will do so. Face it. They make the profits, they take care of everything. The government doesn't have a hand in it. Just see if the stadiums are properly built to safety standards, give the grants, and take the hands off
 
Y'all should look up the deal for the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. It was barely approved by voters on the basis of cost, they claimed the money would come from increased tourism. Then the stadium was about 10x more than predicted and Arlington will be paying on it for years while the city deteriorates just like the last city to house the stadium did.
Interesting...
Do areas with publicly financed libraries have this same problem ?
And, BTW, its way past "high time" that estimated building costs where adhered to.....I do not care if the CEO of that company giving the low estimate and then goes 10X over it, starves to death !
Our nation needs to build more libraries rather than sports facilities....
But the problem is, the libraries are empty....why is this ??
Are we a nation of idiots ??
 
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