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Sports Stadiums Are Bad Public Investments. So Why Are Cities Still Paying for Them? (video)
Submitted by KenK on Fri, 2016-09-30 00:00
“‘Anybody that drives around Southern California can tell you the infrastructure is falling apart,’ says Joel Kotkin, a fellow of urban studies at Chapman University. […] ‘And then we’re [SoCal municipalities] going to give money so a bunch of corporate executives can watch a football game eight times a year? It’s absurd.’ “
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Cities do not pay for them. Taxpayers do. Taxpayer dollars are the easiest dollars to spend.