Just Say No to Publicly Funded Stadiums
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I have already written about publicly funded stadiums in LA.
I just read the newspaper in Chicago, and I learned that the new Bears football
stadium was paid for with $400 million of taxpayer money.
Here we don't have enough money to fund schools and social programs, and we
are giving $400 million to a freaking football team? Give me a break!
Publicly funded stadiums are a form of corruption. Football is a business
just like any other business. If they can't earn the revenues to keep them
afloat, let them go out of business. It's a harsh world out there.
I will vote against any politician who authorizes the use of public money
to go to his friends in the NFL, or Major League Baseball, or to the NBA.