Browns reportedly asking taxpayers to fund half of $2.4B new stadium or $1B in upgrades to current stadium

Yahoo Sports ^ | May 1, 2024 | Liz Roscher

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Taxpayers making thousands subsidizing millionaires.

Such a deal.

[JZelle]

Will it’s better than sending it to Ukraine.

[cgbg]

Money flows from average folks to the billionaires either way.

Great website on the stadium ripoffs—all cities, all sports:

https://www.fieldofschemes.com/

[DesertRhino]

If they would agree not to use that bizarre cinnamon flavored spaghetti sauce chili anymore, it would be a fantastic deal.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

City should get a percentage of the annual gate

[JSM_Liberty]

The owners are billionaires

[JZelle]

Taxpayers are getting the STIF. How appropriate.

[Tom in Seattle]

When the Browns demonstrate they can win a Super Bowl, then what the Hell. Until then, no freaking way.

[Gnome1949]

American professional football has become the biggest con job in world history.

Millionaire owners pay millions in salaries to players. The teams get paid millions from TV networks. They overcharge for their tickets. They demand little old ladies, living on Social Security in modest homes in the community, pay higher property taxes to pay to build expensive football stadiums while the poor receive NOTHING from this con job.

Steal from the poor and give to the rich. That’s American pro football.

[MinorityRepublican]

Cleveland is going to have to say no (after Kansas City did that).

Then you'll see momentum quickly build that cities will refuse to build new stadiums for billionaire owners.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I was thinking of the players, but you are correct.

[wetgundog]

The answer is......NO!

[Leaning Right]

I’m too lazy to look for it now, but awhile back I read an article about this sort of thing. The author said that a sports stadium does not bring any new money into a city. It just shuffles around money that’s already there.

Bottom line: Build your own damn stadium, sports teams. Do not say taxpayers should fund it because it’s a huge plus for the region. Because it’s not.

[Bernard]

If only we could have governments fund manufacturing facilities to make, oh say, cellphones and pharmaceuticals in this country instead of amusement parks, maybe we could get a middle class back. Of course, that would require the hiring of actual Americans instead of illegals who travel under different words so the enablers don't have to call them illegals.

Imagine a world where we stop buying important things from people who don't like us so that we could lift the less fortunate Americans into the middle class and off the welfare rolls.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Their stadium is only 25 years old and now they’re saying it’s too old and too obsolete?

Are we going to get to a point where every professional sports team is going to demand a new stadium about every 20 years?

[SpaceBar]

Socialized costs, privatized profits.

[MinorityRepublican]

Yes.

[isthisnickcool]

How ya think W Bush got rich?

[yldstrk]

The jig is up. Taxpayers are done providing public funding for private profit. Billionaires take note.