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The taxpayers need to stop funding sports stadiums!!


HomerS

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Cincinnati Reds.............They are on pace to lose the most games in franchise history, (136 years!!!!)  Reds pitchers have a Major League Baseball-worse 5.51 ERA and are on pace to give up 281 home runs this season.  That would shatter the Major League record of 241.

Cincinnati Bengals........0-7 playoffs, yet the head coach still has a job.

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Taxpayers built new stadiums 16 years ago for the Bengals and 13 years ago for the Reds.  Home owners got a token tax reduction on property taxes.  The Bengals lease is the worse of the two where they control what events can be at the stadium and the county is on the hook for latest, greatest upgrade other NFL stadiums get.

The Reds had a fire sale in the off season so they are fielding mostly AAA players but the ticket prices haven't dropped.

Norm is right...roads are full of potholes and the main bridge over the Ohio River is functionally obsolete (per the Feds) but no $$ to fund it.

 

 

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The owners here have actually paid for most, if not all, of the cost of the last few stadiums! Though they do get an ENORMOUS tax break if they build in the city proper, not the suburbs. But our roads look like Europe at the end of WWII, and I think the whole world knows about the water issue here!:( (Very ironic that there is a huge water issue in a place called the Great Lakes State!!):blink:

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  • 2 weeks later...

Yes, taxpayers should not have to pay for ball teams. They are a private business. Let the team owners foot all the bills. We're getting both a new football and baseball stadium here in the Atlanta, GA area. At least I don't live in those counties.

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