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New Sports Stadiums and Taxpayer Abuse
There seems to be a domino effect through out the U. ... , new stadiums are being built, teams are demanding that their city build them a new stadium to play in but it is not necessary to build these stadiums. The most obvious change in new stadiums is coming from baseball. In the last 10-15 years many new baseball stadiums have been built, but who is paying for these stadiums? The teams and the owners that are demanding the stadiums, or the taxpayers? ...
Before the Depression stadiums were built by using private funds, some of these stadiums include: Wrigley Field, Tiger Stadium, Yankee Stadium, and Fenway Park ("Sports Pork", 3). ... Why when these stadiums were built were they a fraction of the cost that it is to build a stadium today? ... 5 billion on new stadiums; in the 1990s it spent 11 billion ("Walls Come", 2). ...
Many other cities are also either building new stadiums or contemplating it, 46 major league stadiums and arenas have been built or renovated for teams and 49 more are under construction or in the planning stages ("Debating", 1). Of the 10 highest valued Major League Baseball teams, 6 moved into new stadiums in the 1990s. The new stadiums are very nice and fun to go to, but where is the line supposed to be drawn as far as how much it should cost to build? ... Although there were the overrun charges there are benefits to the stadium, for example, the stadiums retractable roof is was built to protect against Seattles rain, it also provides something else; if the roof is open against the wind it cost approximately ten dollars to move it, but if the roof is open with the wind its motors act like generators and the motion actually creates seven dollars of electricity ("Giving Holiday", 1). The estimated cost of the stadium was originally 400 million, when the elected officials ignored the votes against a hike in sale tax and other things to pay for the overcharges; people were very upset ("Sports Pork", 9). ... One of the classic signs of the new stadiums being built in the 1990s is that the fields are paid for mostly by the taxpayers but are named for the owners or corporations ("Sports Pork", 8). ...
Taxpayers funding the new stadiums are very beneficial to the teams for many reasons. ... Thirdly, teams often dont have to pay property taxes on the new stadiums ("Sports Pork", 17). ... These new stadiums are not only so high tech that its hard to remember the old days but they are actually taking away from history.
Approximate Word count = 2121
Approximate Pages = 8.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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