Detroit Red Wings Get New $400 Million Taxpayer-Financed Stadium While the City Goes Bankrupt

[geefloyd46]

[liberal N proud]

1. Taxes are only good if they are benefiting some corporation or the rich.

It just makes ones head spin that this is even considered let alone actually happen.

[ceonupe]

3. In this case I belive

The money is coming from a specific tax for tourism. This is common around the nation as states and cities compete for sports teams for the money and jobs they bring.

These types of taxes are usually applied to hotels and car rental companies.

[DeSwiss]

5. It never works quite that way.....

...except on paper, in my experience.

"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." ~I.F. Stone

[liberal N proud]

6. Ask the people of Cuyahoga county Ohio who are paying for 2 stadiums which have corporate names

Publicly funded, privately held facilities.

[DeSwiss]

7. Oddly you picked my home town.

I know what you're saying and generally agree. But there are ''ancillary costs'' police, fire, wear and tear on public infrastructure that is not calculated into the long-term cost structures, etc., that never get figured-in that ultimately has to come from somewhere. You can guess where.

[frazzled]

2. And while they talk about selling off the Detroit Institute of Art's holdings

Mr. Frazzled and I were talking about the alarming and short-sighted proposal to sell off the holdings of DIA, collected over a century and one of the few beacons of culture that would help to maintain or attract employers, tourists, and residents in the city. It is economically unsound, as well as considered highly unethical for a museum to deaccession (sell off) works unless it is to buy new work.

Mr. Frazzle responded that they certainly weren't going to sell off assets of the Detroit Tigers. Little did we realize the Red Wings would be the recipients of the public largesse so quickly.

We live in a twisted society.

Somehow I feel that this (together with the many politician scandals of late, the inability to curb gun violence in even the smallest legislative way, military sexual harassment, etc.) is a function of our male-dominated, testosterone-driven society. Hockey, guns, sexual harassment ... it's all of a piece.

Let's even forget about Republicans and Democrats. We need more women ruling the world. The guns and hockey culture would shrink considerably.

[heaven05]

4. looks

bad in times like this for detroit.