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Washington Post poll reveals majority support for public funding of D.C. stadium
nbcsports.com ^

Posted on 05/08/2025 9:57:21 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

How about this? Instead of relying on the opinions of 651 adults in D.C., put the question on a ballot.

Whatever the arguments to be made for subsidizing a multi-billion-dollar business why not rely on the outcome of an official vote from those who are sufficiently motivated, one way or the other, to show up and cast a ballot?

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Interesting. The public is against subsidizing billionaires but DC is the home of the swamp. Time for the MAGA people to step up. TrumpI'm sure has an opinion and the NFL is scared of it.
1 posted on 05/08/2025 9:57:21 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The entire city of DC is publicly subsidized

Of course they believe in free shit - from football stadiums to health care to the tooth fairy.

without our printed, fiat, currency, all the massive government debt and bloated woke government it supports - Washington DC would be a backwater.


2 posted on 05/08/2025 9:59:51 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Could the polling company be lying? The Post gave us Woodward/Bernstein.


3 posted on 05/08/2025 10:00:01 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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DC screwed up forty years ago and forced the Redskins to decamp to the suburbs. Jack Kent Cooke took his team and left. Now, seeing the success of Nationals Stadium DC has decided it wants the Redskins - oh, Commanders! - back. Not one dime of public money should be spent!


4 posted on 05/08/2025 10:02:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

How about a straight per capita tax. Every man, woman and child in DC owes $1,500 for the privilege of having a palace for millionaires to play for their billionaire team owners.


5 posted on 05/08/2025 10:07:32 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (May Rachel Zegler and Disney never know profits.)
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To: Rummyfan

**Not one dime of public money should be spent!**

Goes without saying but does it matter?


6 posted on 05/08/2025 10:11:21 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Although Nationals Park was built with public money. So there’s that. DC sold hundreds of millions of dollars of stadium bonds to pay for it.


7 posted on 05/08/2025 10:18:49 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That area of SE DC actually has been upgraded, however.


8 posted on 05/08/2025 10:33:58 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: PGR88

Bread and circuses.


9 posted on 05/08/2025 10:35:13 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Always remember, subsidies are life support for bad ideas.

Commanders. Sounds like the name for a contraceptive item or an adult diaper.


10 posted on 05/08/2025 10:51:15 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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Football or baseball?

The argument for public funding is that the stadium attracts fans who spend more money; in this case from VA and MD as well as DC. Football will attract 80,000 fans 6-7 times a year. No business is going to do well with a crush of customers 6-7 times a year. Baseball will bring a more modest number, but 81 times a year. But then baseball already has a fairly new stadium.


11 posted on 05/08/2025 11:11:31 AM PDT by dangus
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And that baseball stadium was paid for with public money....

Can DC absorb a billion dollar subsidy for a football stadium and related development?

Will it pencil out? I thought I heard DC has budget issues, completely separate from any potential spending on this stadium.


12 posted on 05/08/2025 12:04:18 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Could the polling company be lying?

Ya Betcha.

13 posted on 05/09/2025 2:27:49 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them. lol)
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