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have perfectly good ones? For example, the City of New York has built a new stadium for the New York Yankees this season and Old Yankee Stadium is expected to be demolished this year even though it remains a perfectly good stadium.
In another absurd case, the city of Kansas City built a new basketball and hockey arena, the Sprint Center, a few years ago even though they have no basketball or hockey team. The stadium has been sitting unused ever since, with the exception of hosting Kansas City Brigade Arena Football games last year (not that anybody really cared, because the Brigade went 3-13).
What exactly is the point of building new sports stadiums with tax dollars to replace perfectly good stadiums that already exist or to create stadiums for teams that don't exist? How can this even remotely benefit the people of a city? Why should billionaire businessmen and millionaire athletes be subsidized by the taxpayers, almost all of whom do not make anywhere near as much money? Why is anybody surprised that sports teams are able to pay ridiculous salaries when they don't even have to pay for their own stadiums? If tax dollars were used to invest millions of dollars in capital for any other business, wouldn't that also help to drive their salaries up above market levels as well?
In another absurd case, the city of Kansas City built a new basketball and hockey arena, the Sprint Center, a few years ago even though they have no basketball or hockey team. The stadium has been sitting unused ever since, with the exception of hosting Kansas City Brigade Arena Football games last year (not that anybody really cared, because the Brigade went 3-13).
What exactly is the point of building new sports stadiums with tax dollars to replace perfectly good stadiums that already exist or to create stadiums for teams that don't exist? How can this even remotely benefit the people of a city? Why should billionaire businessmen and millionaire athletes be subsidized by the taxpayers, almost all of whom do not make anywhere near as much money? Why is anybody surprised that sports teams are able to pay ridiculous salaries when they don't even have to pay for their own stadiums? If tax dollars were used to invest millions of dollars in capital for any other business, wouldn't that also help to drive their salaries up above market levels as well?