[StayAt HomeMother]

DC already DOES enjoy the free-admission Smithsonian and zoo and many other amenities paid for by the whole nation.

The three major airports around but not in DC are a joint DC/MD/VA concern, as is the Metro (public transit).

Funding for operation and replacement of the Wilson Bridge is especially convoluted. This is the bridge that carries I-95, the primary N-S interstate on the East Coast, and DC, MD, VA, and the Feds all have a piece of the action.

But are you proposing VA and MD (and perhaps WV, depending on the definition of “DC metropolitan area”) pay for a stadium over which they had and currently have absolutely no control?

This is especially ironic in that DC license plates claim THEY are the ones being taxed without representation.

[Michael.SF.]

But are you proposing VA and MD (and perhaps WV, depending on the definition of “DC metropolitan area”) pay for a stadium over which they had and currently have absolutely no control?

Two comments:

I believe that the spending of public money for the construction of Municipal stadiums is a reasonable use of tax dollars, when done for the ultimate benefit of the citizen's served by the controlling governing body.

If we, the taxpayer's, are going to pay for such a stadium then we should have ultimate control over design, location, full use, when not used for contracted tenants and we should derive a profit from the investment. Such profit should also include increased taxes paid by those associated with the stadium or benefiting from it (Hotel tax, employee tax, parking revenue, etc. etc.
However, such decisions should be fully discussed with the primary tenant (in this case the Nationals).