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To: cicero2k

Sports stadiums are not infrastructure. Why should a million people pay so some billionaire can give a gift to his millionaire employees? Let those 50,000 fans per game pay for it instead.

It is a private business, let them pay for their own stuff. This is not the job of a government. Same with public libraries, the patrons should pay for it, not everyone else.


18 posted on 12/17/2009 1:19:23 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

I think both Dallas and the N.Y. Giants sold “personal seat licenses” to their season ticket holders to pay a big piece of the cost of their new stadiums.

I think each still had some public money involved, but, the seat license money paid hundreds of millions towards each stadium. Let the people who actually go to the games pay the biggest piece of the cost of the stadium. If demand for NFL tickets is that high, that people are wililng to spend thousands in “seat license” money up front, why not do it that way?


36 posted on 12/17/2009 3:45:33 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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