Posted on 10/11/2016 7:18:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A bill to raise hotel taxes to fund an NFL stadium for the Oakland Raiders and a convention center expansion has crossed its first hurdle in the Nevada Legislature.
The Nevada Senate voted 16-5 on Tuesday to approve the measure. Democratic opponents have said they oppose putting public funds to a project backed by billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, while Republican opponents oppose raising taxes.
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Taxpayers again footing the bill for sports team billionaire owners.
If those tax payers want to do it why is it a problem?
Mark Davis is definitely not a billionaire. The poorest NFL owner, he has a net worth of $500 million, but most of that is tied up in the Raiders,
The Raiders belong in Oakland.
No taxpayer money should EVER be spent to build stadiums for billionaire owners so their millionaire players have a place to disrespect the taxpayers.
Las Vegas Raiders. Doesn’t have that voice-of-God John Facenda tone to it.
Vegas is one of those cities where most inhabitants moved from somewhere else and still cheer for their old teams, kind of like Miami.
I bet most games there, fans of the visiting team would outnumber the home fans.
They just never learn, do they ??
Nobody belongs in Oakland. :)
‘We want the Oakland Raiders to move here, so we’ll tax transients to pay for the stadium where we live, that way, the only taxpayers who pay for it are those who couldn’t possibly have a say in it.’
Always wanted to explore the topic of taxing non-residents.
True, but to be more precise, hotel and resort customers will pay the tax, not the vegas locals, much less the NV residents.
With the millions of visitors to Vegas each year, the bond will be paid off in just a few years.
One of the reasons vegas is targeting the Raiders is because the team has fans that travel to see them. So if the Raiders move to Vegas, yes there will be many fans of the opposing team flying in for a Vegas weekend, but the raiders will have just as many non-local fans flying into vegas for the weekend, too.
Only Dallas and Green Bay have tourist fans just like the Raiders, but none of these two teams are planning to ever leave their respective towns.
The Raiders in vegas make a lot of sense.
Why is it not ok ? Government is picking winners and losers. If the NFL is such a great thing, let it pay its own way. Just because visitors to Vegas will foot the bill does not make this money grab ok.
So because the visitors to Vegas will pay for this that makes it ok ? The billion dollar a year NFL can’t afford to support itself ? It needs to tax visitors to Vegas ? What not just tax tickets to the game ? Then its truly a user fee/tax.
Where do you see taxpayers voting for this ? Taxpayers have about as much say in this as pissing in a bucket. Legislators don’t listen to the average taxpayer.
The tax/user fee will probably be one or two bucks per room for a couple of years.
Vegas visitors, who spend ungodly amounts of money or at least $200 each stay on average, will barely notice.
Look at more closely, it is a hotel tax. Nevadans will vote on a stadium to be built by tourist tax money.
Vegas locals bought an impressive number of season tickets for the new NHL team before the NHL even decided to give the go ahead. It was more than enough to convince the NHL that the locals want a team.
It the locals want an NHL team, it’s more than likely they really want an NFL team even more.
If it came down to the voters, vegas locals would vote for the stadium easily.
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