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Are Sports Subsidies Worth It?

submitted by dystopianfuturetoday

1 decade 6 years 3 months ago

From ReasonTV: It's a great time to be a sports fan: The NBA playoffs are shaping up, the NHL playoffs are underway, and the baseball season is young enough that followers of every team can still dream about making it to the World Series.

But as Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals—a team that surely is not going to the October Classic any time soon—eases into its brand-spanking-new-and-massively-expensi ve stadium, reason.tv asks the question: Are publicly financed stadiums and other sports subsidies really worth the cost to taxpayers?

6 Comments

kronosposeidon

No.

I don't want my tax money helping to subsidize business ventures of millionaires who charge outrageous prices for tickets and concessions.

Fuck. Them. All.

There is a case to be made for public stadiums I think. But one made exclusively for a sports team at the price tag of 600 million dollars...ghey.

"That's no benefit to society." -> Society doesn't just benefit from revenue generated in certain communities. Sports franchises benefit cities in intangible ways, too, like civic pride and international spotlight. That quote is quite ignorant and non-comprehensive.

>> ^brycewi19:
"That's no benefit to society." -> Society doesn't just benefit from revenue generated in certain communities. Sports franchises benefit cities in intangible ways, too, like civic pride and international spotlight. That quote is quite ignorant and non-comprehensive.

Those are arbitrary personal values which other tax payers might not care that their city have for itself. Some, just want to eat, drink, and sleep, and yet are forced to pay for someone else's entertainment and ideals. That is the problem here. Government isn't supposed to be about the betterment of society, that is our job.

dystopianfuturetoday

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