[cableguymn]

I will remember who supported this come Nov...

What a waste of my money.

[KarlInOhio]

Because if you don't it will be all your fault when your team moves to Los Angeles. Yes, your fault personally, so pay up now.

I think the NFL has gotten far more money from not having a team in Los Angeles than if they had one there. If a team moves to LA, they will get taxpayerchumps to pay for one stadium. With the threat of moving to LA, they can get 32 free stadiums. The treat of moving a team to Portland, Oregon (next larget metropolitan area that isn't already in range of a NFL team) just doesn't scare taxpayerchumps like a threat to move to LA.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

FYI.

[Steely Tom]

Why are taxpayers paying for professinal sports?

Just a guess, but it probably has something to do with professional politicians.

[pallis]

I agree that sports should not be subsidized with tax dollars. We already pay for public sports during sixteen years of education, counting four years of college.

[cripplecreek]

Why are taxpayers paying for bike paths and hiking trails? I’ve never ridden on a bike path or walked on a marked hiking trail.

Why are taxpayers paying for public transportation? I’ve been on a city bus once, a greyhound once and a train once.

[Kenny500c]

Any taxpayer money, subsidies, tax credits, etc. for private business should be banned, period.

There is simply too much opportunity for graft.

[Paladin2]

Pure Tax Slavery.

[RckyRaCoCo]

40 cents of every dollar on most folks cable TV bill goes towards sports programming. Many teams no longer care whether they put butts in the stands or not, or even win for that matter...because the TV contracts are so lucrative. Think I read that the Los Angeles Angels(of Anaheim) TV contract was worth $3 billion over 20 years?

[wrencher]

Entertainment-addicted, celebrity-infatuated people get what they deserve.

[BfloGuy]

I've had more than a few heated exchanges with otherwise good FReepers about the merits of publicly financed professional sports stadiums. They are all convinced that the economy is stimulated when a new stadium goes up.

They see 75,000 people shelling out for tickets, beer, and hot dogs and consider that economic growth. No thought for what the money might have otherwise been spent on.

[Big Horn]

The Vikings will never be successful unless they learn to fly on their own.

[nascarnation]

When politicians look at the 3-D computer model of their luxury box seats in the new stadium, how could they possibly vote NOT to spend your money?

[griswold3]

Stealing from Each Other: How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit [Hardcover]

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