Everything's Bigger in Texas, Including Insane Spending on High School Football Stadiums
Taxpayers support spending $70 million on a little-used stadium, but remain clueless to the lack of economic benefit.
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Las Vegas Taxpayers Could Be on the Hook for $750 Million to Fund NFL Stadium
Committee of "casino leaders and elected officials" votes to subsidize Sheldon Adelson and the Oakland Raiders.
U.S. Taxpayers Have Been Forced to Pay Over $3.2 Billion on Sports Stadiums
Public financing of private boondoggles isn't just a local issue, according to new report from Brookings Institution.
Enjoy Rio's Olympic Venues Now. In a Few Years, They Will Be in Ruins.
Few boondoggles are bigger, more costly, and less permanent than Olympic infrastructure.
The New Vikings Stadium Is a Broken Window Metaphor Come to Life
Vandalism at the Minnesota Vikings new stadium turned the $1.1 billion glass structure into a hulking metaphor about the folly of publicly-funded ballparks.
Quebec Publicly Financed an Arena to Get an NHL Team. You Won't Believe What Happened Next.
Actually, you can probably guess what happened.
Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman Doesn't Want the Public to Fund Stadiums
Star cornerback and Stanford grad says "make the billionaires who actually benefit from the stadiums pay for them."
Cobb County Has No Money Left for Public Parks Because They Gave it All to the Atlanta Braves
Voters supported funding parks, but not a billionaire's ballpark.
The Yard Goats are a Farm Team Without a Farm
The centerpiece of Hartford's $400 million development misses another deadline.
Another Troubled City, Another Subsidized Stadium To the Rescue
Perpetually broke Hartford bets big-and stupid-on minor-league ballpark.
Rams Stiff St. Louis, Leave City with $144 Million Bill
Even though the NFL team has left, taxpayers are still on the hook for stadium debt payments.
Taxpayers Beware: The Rams are Returning to Los Angeles
Or, how I learned to love taxes and embrace football stadiums.
LA Rams Should Pay Back Public Funds to Missouri, Sen. McCaskill Says
The Democratic lawmaker is drafting a bill requiring refunds from teams who skip town after accepting public financing.
You Might As Well Watch the NFL Playoffs. You're Paying for Them.
The NFL's real "12th man" is the taxpayer.
Football Is Coming Back to Los Angeles, But Should Taxpayers Be Cheering?
NFL owners approve move of Rams; Chargers could be next.
Yes, College Athletes Should Be Paid, But Not by Students & Taxpayers
If you get angry over subsidies for pro sports teams, don't look at your alma mater's financials.
Show-Me State Suckers Shell Out Super-Subsidies For NFL Rams
There are no good economic arguments and even fewer cultural ones to support handouts to billionaire team owners.
Why Boston's Sports Fans Rejected the Olympics Boondoggle—and L.A. Said Bring It On
The long, sad history of overspending on the international games.
Scott Walker To Commit $400 Million in Taxpayer Dollars for NBA Stadium Deal
Meet the new fiscally responsible Republican, same as the old fiscally responsible Republican.
The NFL Gives Up Tax Exempt Status. Can We Stop Paying for Stadiums Too?
Top 5 NFL Hits to Taxpayers
Sports Stadiums Are Bad Public Investments. So Why Are Cities Still Paying for Them?
Joel Kotkin dispels some of the popular myths of stadium projects.
Inglewood's NFL Stadium Proposal Better Than Most, But Still Pretty Crony
Multibillion-dollar sports franchises don't need any additional tax breaks.
Can We Shut Up About the Weather? And Start Talking About Super-Bowl-Sized Corporate Handouts?
It's snowing, but it's winter. For the NFL and other sports leagues, it's raining taxpayer dollars every single day.
Will Sacramento Residents Get the Chance to Stop a Massive Stadium Subsidy?
Hundreds of millions for a not-very-good basketball team
Why Stadium Subsidies Always Win
Politicians always underestimate the cost and overstate the benefits of stadiums.
Taxpayer-Subsidized Projects for the Elite
Richmond, Virginia, has already been burned on grandiose projects.
Virginia Mayor Proposes Building Ballpark over Slave Graveyard
But it would include a memorial
Atlanta Braves Moving to New Stadium in 2017
Taxpayers reportedly picking up at least part of the tab
