The claimed public benefits of entertainment venues never come to fruition. Sports stadiums, concert venues, casinos- always the same story about how much tourists dollars will be generated for local business. And maybe the venue does attract customers, who gamble, go to a game or a concert. Then they get in their cars and go home.
The claimed public benefits of entertainment venues never come to fruition. Sports stadiums, concert venues, casinos- always the same story about how much tourists dollars will be generated for local business. And maybe the venue does attract customers, who gamble, go to a game or a concert. Then they get in their cars and go home.
Exactly. The Chiefs are destroying the football world right now, but after the parade debacle I read some extremely troubling statistics about the city. Why hasn't the riches brought about by sports tackled those situations? :/
Sports are entertainment, they don't create wealth like manufacturing or Spyware (errrr software), sports really add nothing to the economy. And this is coming from someone who has donated lots of money to my alma mater for college athletics and has season tickets for the Sac Kings. I love sports, but stadiums are a waste of public money and should only be privately financed. Sacramento will go bankrupt with their dumbass stadium financing plan for a petulant billionaire owner and his millionaire performers.
Well, I willing to expand that circle, to say, that crappy library downtown that only houses the homeless, but that I still taxed for. Shut that thing down, too.
The claimed public benefits of entertainment venues never come to fruition. Sports stadiums, concert venues, casinos- always the same story about how much tourists dollars will be generated for local business. And maybe the venue does attract customers, who gamble, go to a game or a concert. Then they get in their cars and go home.
Exactly. The Chiefs are destroying the football world right now, but after the parade debacle I read some extremely troubling statistics about the city. Why hasn't the riches brought about by sports tackled those situations? :/
Sports are entertainment, they don't create wealth like manufacturing or Spyware (errrr software), sports really add nothing to the economy. And this is coming from someone who has donated lots of money to my alma mater for college athletics and has season tickets for the Sac Kings. I love sports, but stadiums are a waste of public money and should only be privately financed. Sacramento will go bankrupt with their dumbass stadium financing plan for a petulant billionaire owner and his millionaire performers.
As a sports fan, you understand that when you go to the stadium and buy a ticket and a hot dog and a beer, you're supporting the team. Voluntary.
When people who couldn't care less about sports are forced to finance our entertainment, that's crossing a line.
I'll second that!
Well, I willing to expand that circle, to say, that crappy library downtown that only houses the homeless, but that I still taxed for. Shut that thing down, too.