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To: EveningStar
I see billionaires lining up with their hands out. They want the state to provide them with brand new facilities so that the value of their teams will double overnight. If I were a public official, I would refuse to even consider providing a stadium to a team except perhaps in exchange for an equity interest in the team. Unfortunately, too many public officials can be bribed to provide a stadium for more or less nothing.

This is the real welfare state in all its glory.

10 posted on 10/24/2015 8:21:45 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food

It’s interesting that in the leftie Bay Area, both the Giants and 49ers new stadia were built without any taxpayer money.


24 posted on 10/24/2015 11:51:05 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Tau Food

Bread and Circuses.


29 posted on 10/25/2015 6:28:46 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Tau Food

>> Unfortunately, too many public officials can be bribed to provide a stadium for more or less nothing.<<

That is NOT the history of NFL (not) in L.A. The ONLY thing L.A. has ever done right was to ask the NFL how much it will pay L.A. to place a team there.

The State isn’t involved at all.

This is blackmail of SD by the Chargers. Expect it to work.

This relocation will not work.


34 posted on 10/25/2015 7:59:24 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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