[steve-b]

Virginia has a $1 billion surplus, and you want to use to support millionaires (players) and billionaires (owners). How bout giving some tax relief to the little guy. Geez, this is a conservative site, wanting taxpayers to pay for the fun and games.

Finally, a post that belongs on FR rather than DU.

Personally, I hope that the whole three-year mess, capped with this wedgie from the DC Council, will help cure major league sports of the habit of demanding that the taxpayers buy them a new stadium as soon as the paint starts to peel on the old one.

[bigj00]

If the cities want the owners to pay 50% or even more then the cityies should give them tax breaks and not take any extra revenue from the stadium.
If I was an owner I would tell them I would pay 100% of the cost, IF and only IF, they NOT collect taxes on the propety improvements, Food, parking, ticket sales etc. They would get increased taxes form the employees and the hotel tax revenue would go up.