With local governments strapped, particularly San Diego, the state needs to step in, Murray said.
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This decodes to "we need to take more money from the taxpayers to fund our favorite, non-essential projects!!"
San Diego is a great city (and close to my old hometown) but it's currently governed by a bunch of clowns in the mayor's office and the city council. There's so much property tax and hotel room tax revenue pouring into San Diego's government. Without their irresponbile and inept financial management, they would have no financial problems whatsover. This stadium deal should have been done a long time ago--give the Chargers some land at the current 166 acre site and help them with partial financing and Spanos will do the rest. The SD city council has too many left-leaning, anti-business dummys who can't manage anything properly. What a joke the city council is in SD; the new stadium should have been built by now and opened for next season.
The Chargers want San Diego to have a new football stadium. Most voters know this. But many voters may not be aware that the Chargers’ proposal for a new stadium will actually save San Diego money.
[snip] The new stadium would relieve San Diego of more than $9 million a year the Citizen’s Task Force found that the city now spends to subsidize the 166-acre Qualcomm Stadium site. The financial drain from the city’s general fund could otherwise be used for the police and fire departments, libraries and other essential services.
So basically, "give us a new stadium deal because it's less unfair to you than the current stadium deal."