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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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I will never understand why public funds should pay for >50% of the funds for a privately owned sports clubs arena
This is one of the biggest taxpayer rip-offs in the country. Under the guise of the limited jobs it creates. Study after study proves what a rip-off it is. New York taxpayers are about to foot 1 billion so the Bills can keep coming up short of expectations.
They’re doing the same thing here in Jacksonville for the Jaguars. Instead of putting money towards education, infrastructure, or our decaying downtown taxpayers will instead pay a billion dollars for a “stadium of the future” for a mediocre ass football team that hasn’t won shit in the almost 30 years that they’ve existed. They’re arguably the most irrelevant franchise in all of North American pro sports and they’ve become a bottom tier organization under Khan’s ownership yet they have the audacity to ask us to split the bill lmao.