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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.