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[Seattle Times] 15 years after moving Sonics, now it’s the Thunder asking for publicly funded arena
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To me a billionaire owner asking the city to pay for their stadium is like the NFL paying its superbowl performers nothing and having the back up dancers work for "exposure."
Yeah maybe your right, maybe that dancer is just glad to get the "exposure." But is that fair? NFL making 4 mil selling a 30 second ad and selling tickets for 100k a seat, while the dancer gets paid nothing?
Yeah the city will get some extra revenue from a new arena being built, but isn't that how business is supposed to work? You build a new arena and can sell tickets at higher prices, city sees a cut of tax revenue, everybody wins? But because your business is really successfull you want taxpayers to give you a kickback on top of all that profit? Its pure greed and exactly what's wrong with the world today, billionaire not satisfied with being a billionaire and needs to exploit the lower class more.