Utter insanity! $31 TRILLION of national debt, massive recession underway with likely depression, stock market wealth wiped out, big unemployment coming...so what do we do? Piss away huge money on a useless sports stadium!
It pisses me off royally that professions sports teams don’t have to build their own damn stadiums.
Why doesn’t the government of the taxpayer build me a new office building?
It is beyond ludicrous. Criminal in my opinion.
With the kind of money that the NFL generates, they have no moral business asking for the Taxpayers to build their stadiums. Not at all!!!
These things never pay for themselves before sports teams demand a new one.
Let the billionaires build their own sports palaces.
Idiots in Tampa (Hillsborough County) voted for a 0.5% tax increase back in ‘96 for the Bucs stadium. Why would people vote for a tax that only helps a couple of millionaires? Sure didn’t do anything for me when I lived in Tampa.
Yet another slush-fund for 'rat campaigns?
The long running story is Dan Snyder refuses to invest in the upkeep of FedEx Field in the hope Virginia will build him a new stadium in NoVa.
Jacksonville will be next, the team is conducting a survey on what to do with the existing stadium.
Since the Stadium is owned by the city and team wants an upgrade, it will get done, the question is how it will get paid for.
The team will pay a portion, but the city will pay a major portion of the upgrade.
Tax payer funded football stadiums are pure Bread & Circuses. At least the Romans got free admission to attend events at the Colisuem or Circus Maximus.
Be careful who you elect. And recall them all if you can.
Tennessee Republicans are Business First Chamber of Commerce cronies from Bill Lee on down and so the Titans get the $$$$.
I recall hearing , that with new stadiums being built , the personal seat licenses that most teams charge, in addition to season ticket costs, were to provide a fund to build the stadium.
Do they not use the personal seat license money to build the stadium? I have not kept up with the mechanics of how stadiums get paid for. But I agree with everyone here who says that Stadiums should not be publicly funded.
I also question how is it, that various teams with a stadium that’s only about 20 years old , are suddenly saying that the stadium is too old and obsolete, and now they need a new one.
More theft by government.
Not enough green? Buffalo Bills’ new $1.4B stadium won’t seek LEED certification
So much for principle, eh?
But it's OK when Deep State refuses to go green.
So since taxpayers help build the stadium, I’m sure they’ll get a good discount on ticket prices, etc? /s