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> It’s interesting they evaluate the cost benefit of stadiums without considering the actual benefit that drives these decisions: people like having sports team
by lesuorac 3y ago
> It’s interesting they evaluate the cost benefit of stadiums without considering the actual benefit that drives these decisions: people like having sports teams in their city.
Plenty of times when a vote goes up for if a new stadium should be tax-payer funded it gets voted down [1]. It seems that for many cities; they'd rather pay less in taxes than have that sports team.
[1]: https://apnews.com/article/royals-chiefs-stadiums-taxes-public-funding-f1381c8916144371b3037ebc5b2dcc47 https://apnews.com/article/royals-chiefs-stadiums-taxes-publ...
- rayiner 3y agoSometimes that happens. But many of these expansions are paid for with bond referendums, and they usually pass: https://law.marquette.edu/assets/sports-law/Referenda.16.pdf https://law.marquette.edu/assets/sports-law/Referenda.16.pdf