While it may be true that sports teams provide some kind of emotional or non-monetary value to a city, the question is should a government use threats of viole

While it may be true that sports teams provide some kind of emotional or non-monetary value to a city, the question is should a government use threats of violence to collect money to pay for it? One must always remember that government, specifically local governments, pay for things with compulsorily taxation, i.e if you do not pay government sends people will guns to force you to pay. I dont think sports teams should be treated as "critical infrastructure" and while you might be able to make the ethical case for Police, Fire, etc I am not sure how one would make an ethical case to use violence to fund a sports stadium So not only do you ave a financial problem with stadiums, you have an ethical one as well At the end of the day, Sports is not a proper function of government