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.
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.