Saturday, December 17, 2005
Clarity
Re-reading this, I think I should expand/clarify this statement:
There have been ideas thrown around of the team partnering somehow with a school district on building a stadium that can be used for high school sports and pro soccer. (We take our high school football serious in Texas, it's not as crazy as it might sound.) I'd have to see one of those proposals. Could it save money for the school district?
I really, really dislike public financing of stadia for professional sports.I am opposed 100% to the HCHSA issuing bonds to build the stadium and repaying those bonds with any kind of tax on the general public (e.g., hotel tax).
There have been ideas thrown around of the team partnering somehow with a school district on building a stadium that can be used for high school sports and pro soccer. (We take our high school football serious in Texas, it's not as crazy as it might sound.) I'd have to see one of those proposals. Could it save money for the school district?
posted by Rob Booth, 12/17/2005
1 Comments:
One tweak to that sentiment that I'd add for myself. I'm 99% against any tax bucks being spent for the sake of new stadiums, playpens and the like.
The 1% allowance is for the fact that I believe that, if a private venture can/should be built, there should be a worthwhileness of public expense for things like improving roads and traffic flow and other utilities around such large buildings that have the capacity to bring in and send out something like 80k folks at a time.
Unfortunately, that doesn't involve any of the giveaways that HCHSA has agreed to with any of the present sports franchises.
If the buildings themselves are so desparately needed to ensure a billion-dollar profit, then there's no reason why they wouldn't be profitable for a private entity. Milwaukee has a privately funded basketball/hockey arena. Last I checked, they had few problems keeping up with the rest of the world.
The 1% allowance is for the fact that I believe that, if a private venture can/should be built, there should be a worthwhileness of public expense for things like improving roads and traffic flow and other utilities around such large buildings that have the capacity to bring in and send out something like 80k folks at a time.
Unfortunately, that doesn't involve any of the giveaways that HCHSA has agreed to with any of the present sports franchises.
If the buildings themselves are so desparately needed to ensure a billion-dollar profit, then there's no reason why they wouldn't be profitable for a private entity. Milwaukee has a privately funded basketball/hockey arena. Last I checked, they had few problems keeping up with the rest of the world.
