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The Studies Don't Lie

Stadiums DO NOT make moneyfor the Host City!

 

The private owners of the Chargers team line will line their pocket with GOLD while the taxpayer is on the hook for a new San Diego Chargers' Stadium.

Study 1. Field of Schemes: How the great stadium swindle turns public money into private profit

 

Average citizens are the ones paying for the cost of new stadiums in public subsidies, lost tax revenues, loss of public spaces taken over for private gain, in disillusionment with the democratic process..

Study 2. Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle Over Building Sports Stadiums

 

The authors provide an eye-opening account of recent battles over publicly financed stadiums in some of America's largest cities. They also show that new sports facilities don't live up to their promise of big money and how proponents are using a new tactic to win public subsidies--intangible "social" reward-, such as prestige and community cohesion. The authors find these to be empty promises.

Study 3. Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying for It

 

A welfare system exists in this country that transfers hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers to individuals who hardly require government assistance.  State and local officials, mesmerized by vague promises and starry-eyed visions of the future, cave in to ever escalating demands from the system’s beneficiaries, without ever finding out whether the public is served by such policies

The Studies Don't Lie:  Stadiums DO NOT make money for the Host City!  

 

The private owners of the Chargers team line will line their pocket with GOLD while the taxpayer is on the hook for a new San Diego Chargers' Stadium.

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