Posted on 10/17/2022 10:55:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The taxpayers in Tennessee are being handed the bill for more than half the cost of the new Titans stadium in Nashville. They will also reportedly have even less control over this project than they did the last stadium, according to Axios.
The deal to build a new domed stadium was announced this week by Nashville’s Democrat Mayor John Cooper and will become the largest building project in Nashville’s history.
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Once again, the average schmuck subsidizes the lifestyles of multi-millionaire athletes. Even with these huge tax subsidies, many people are priced out of buying tickets to games.
I remember when they built a stadium for the Titans when they first moved to Nashville. Paid for by the taxpayers. There was even a referendum about the taxpayers paying for it (it passed, because Nashville has always wanted to be just like other major cities, even if it is impractical)
What happened to it?
End the allowed monopoly status for all pro sports particularly the NFL!
Didn’t they just build a new stadium in Nashville in the late 90s or early 2000s?? Are they talking about replacing a 20-year-old Stadium?? It’s already too old and obsolete?
It was built in 1999 and is operated by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.
It really doesn’t have a large capacity, at least by SEC standards, only about 60,000 or so.
If the team doesn’t make enough money to build their own stadium then perhaps it is not a viable enterprise.
John Cooper
Is he the brother of Jim Cooper the Democrat US congressman from Nashville area ???
Just as crooked ...
All the studies show that new stadiums don’t generate new income. They just move entertainment dollars away from existing businesses to the stadium resulting in no net gain in tax revenues.
Why should the taxpayers of the entire state be stuck with the bill when the vast majority of them will never attend a game? It should be the taxpayers of Nashville/Davidson County or at most the taxpayers of the Nashville metropolitan area. If there is any economic benefit to having the Oilers there, that’s the part of the state which benefits.
Most of them probably can’t afford to attend a game. It’s pretty expensive.
Why not bill the gambling interests that now pretty much control sports?
This is subsidizing the lifestyles of the near-billionaire/billionaire owners.
However, unlike the current stadium, the new one will be enclosed, meaning that Nashville could host Super bowls, SEC football championships, NCAA final four's, etc. And that really will bring in new revenue that the city would not have gotten before.
Yes I remember that
Big excitement
the Houston Oilers were comming
Harrah !!!
Get out the big WELCOME mat !!!
Marsha Blackburn had Brentwood the area just south of the city
Wonder if its covering part of her old district ...
I have never been in favor of buying stadiums for billionaires or anyone else. I was pleasantly surprised that Ron De Santis made a law against that type of cronyism in Florida.
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