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    Es gibt keine guten Gründe, Sportstadien zu subventionieren. Die Regierungen machen trotzdem weiter.

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    2. kia75 on

      But Stadium owners and team owners are rich! Everyone knows only the obscenely rich deserve government welfare!

    3. mcdisease on

      I stopped supporting this as soon as I figured out they never stop demanding that we pay for their stadium and if we don’t, they leave.

      Sports were better in the 80’s and 90’s anyways. Screw these oligarchs.

    5. StrangerFew2424 on

      How else are politicians supposed to get ‚donations‘ from billionaires…. 🤔 

    6. DazzleBellee on

      It’s just corporate welfare. That money could fix so many potholes, it’s insane.

    7. Virbillion on

      the biggest con (outside of the epstein cover up) of my lifetime is for profit institutions convincing tax payers to cover their expense and just pocketing the profits.

      sports stadiums.
      wal marts.

      and the single greatest culprit is musk.

      we have a billionaire infestation because big business no longer requires financial risk. tax payers now cover the risk.

      the richest man on earth is also the number one recipient of welfare.

      the ultra-rich have become the welfare class.

    8. OtterlyFeral on

      While I get where this is coming from, more and more private owners are funding their own buildings. The rams/chargers, jets/giants, and raiders stadiums were all the most recently built stadiums in the league. If you look at arenas, the 76ers and flyers are working on a new arena privately funded, as are the eagles (granted the 76ers used philadelphia to get what they wanted by having the city approve their new arena downtown only to back out once they reached a new deal with the flyers). It has been falling out of favor for awhile now to have stadiums be subsidized by cities.

    9. One_Disaster_5995 on

      Silly. Sports, like arts, are part of culture. Culture is identity. Identity is unity. Unity is power.

      Give people bread and games and they will never revolt. The Romans already knew this.

    10. ANTILAMER13 on

      It serves a purpose. The point of sports is to appease the masses.

      George Orwell: sports serve as a powerful tool for distraction, keeping the working class (or „proles“ in 1984) distracted, entertained, and thus compliant under a controlling, often totalitarian, regime.

      Orwell viewed this intense focus on sport not as healthy recreation, but as a method to fill the „horizon of their minds,“ preventing them from dwelling on their miserable living conditions or questioning authority.

    11. Apathetic_Zealot on

      Capitalism is about profit. Nothing is more profitable than having someone else pay for your assets. Politicians can brag they brought jobs to the area while the franchise gives them campaign donations from the money they fleeced from the public coffers.

    12. PleasantWay7 on

      There is a good reason, if you lose the team, you might lose reelection. Voter reactions to the reality on the ground drive these decisions.

    13. Ensiferum on

      There’s tons of research on this. Any economic benefit for the surrounding area is negligible. Only lines the pockets of billionaires.

    14. Vegetable-Error-2068 on

      Sport are another “pillar” of American culture for all the wrong reasons.

      It is part of “bread and circuses,” sure, but it’s also a glaring, insidious example of how America worships aggression and athleticism and crude ideas of “strength” instead of intellect and wisdom and good governance.

    19. notassigned2023 on

      Illinois got burned in decades past and will never do it again. Bears take notice.

    20. AndYetAnotherUserID on

      I say cancel the planned Washington commanders stadium … especially since some orange clown wants it named after him. I’d bet there would be widespread support for this.

    21. thisisjustascreename on

      The reason is because the billionaire owner will write each of them a $5,000 check for the next election in exchange for millions of taxpayer dollars.

    22. thingsorfreedom on

      There is only one good reason. Other cities do this to entice teams to move there and cities where teams are now would have heartbroken fans if the team left. Sports fans know the bonding and socializing and collective joy and sorrow that come from rooting for the home town team. Sports connects us all.

    24. RioRancher on

      You’d need a national ban to end the arms race. Although, a publicly-owned stadium where the team pays rent to the municipality is ok.

    25. JohnnyDigsIt on

      Bread and circuses. The oligarchs enjoy watching the spectacle almost as much as they enjoy laughing at the people who paid for it.

    26. JahoclaveS on

      I had to laugh when the first consortium trying to bring an mls team to St. Louis honestly thought the voters would approve public funding only a few years after the rams debacle.

    27. nutano on

      I agree that governments should not subsidize pro level stadiums just to keep a team in town and not have any asset to show for it… I am not opposed to things like discount on some taxes or permits costs so long as they have conditions attached to them – such as commitments for local charity, hospitals and such and to prioritize local businesses over large multi nationals (ex: not only serve Coors, Bud and Molson products – but also give contracts to small local breweries, give local restaurant chains spots in the concession areas…

      Pro level sports attracts a lot of outside money into the city in the form of hotel stays, transit\taxi\air travel\restaurants revenue. They are also good part-time employers.

      I think some cities kicking in tens or even hundreds of millions in subsidies without a good chunk of ownership\revenue sharing is a total mis-appropriation of public funds.

      Now, if a city\municipality\government will be part owner and reap some of the revenues – then it really depends on if the city is able to afford it, but it can be an investment that pays for itself and sometimes even more… however, let’s be real. There are very few levels of governments that are actually not swimming in debt these days.

    28. kummer5peck on

      There are not many things to admire about Missouri, but one is that they don’t play this game with billionaire team owners. St Louis let the Rams leave and Kansas City let the next town over pay for the Chiefs stadium.

    30. TerminalObsessions on

      To be clear, they keep doing it because the same oligarchs who own the stadiums own the politicians. It’s not a mystery.

    31. MiddleAgedSponger on

      Billiionaires own politicians and stadiums. It’s cheaper to buy elections than stadiums. It really is that simple.

    33. spiff2268 on

      I remember an interview with John McCain where he was proposing a bill that would forbid a team from blacking out a non-sellout game if the venue was built using taxpayer money. Obviously it went absolutely nowhere.

    34. atlienk on

      Look up: Stadiums: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) on YouTube.
      The video is ~10 years old, but still so applicable.

    35. Kharax82 on

      As someone that worked in hospitality near a large stadium for many years, I always find this sentiment out of touch with reality. Stadiums are not just used for sports, but concerts, conventions/expositions, festivals or even stuff like monster truck rallies or university graduations

      The most money I ever made was when the Super Bowl was in town. I made about 6 weeks of my typical income in a single weekend

      The second most was when Taylor Swift was in town. Endless teenage girls and their moms with tons of money.

    37. cowboi on

      im only ok with it if its written in the contract incase of emergency the facility is to be used as a location.

    43. Secure-Window-5478 on

      Fuck the billionaire owners. Only the Greenbay Packers deserve public funding for anything because they are owned by the fans.

    44. cookm3 on

      The entire saga of Ohio Republicans dumping state unclaimed funds into a new Browns stadium infuriates me. Millions of dollars of money that belongs to people is just being shoveled to the ultra-rich instead of the state actually trying to get that money back to people.

    45. rysker6 on

      If you own your business, I shouldn’t have to help you with it.

      You don’t pay for my house

      You don’t pay for my insurance

      You don’t pay for my car

      You can’t pay for your business, you don’t deserve it

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