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Originally Posted by ModSocks
I'm not versed in what's going on with ya'lls stadium situation, but everything i've read so far is exactly like the situation in San Diego.
And the same arguments Mecca and Zach are making were also made here.
"We don't want to give money to billionaires".
You're focused on the wrong thing. Your tax money is going to billionaires regardless. This isn't about saving you tax money, fools. This is about which special project GETS your tax money.
You can bet your ass you will be paying that tax in something else.
In San Diego, politicians and non-sports fans aligned to lead the public to believe that the hotel tax that the Chargers wanted to fund the stadium was about billioniares.
That was a lie. It was about ANOTHER project those politicians wanted to fund. The Convention Center remodel.
In the end, San Diego said "No" to using that hotel tax to build a stadium. The Chargers left.
Later, the city approved a new hotel tax to fund the remodel of the Convention Center as they wanted to invest in keeping Comic-Con in town. New pedestrian bridges that no one wanted etc.
And you know what happened after that? Covid hit. And Comic-Con was basically canceled and reduced to a shell of its former self.
Take a ****ing history lesson, before you're doomed to repeat it.
Quit the bullshit, it's not about billionaires. It's about which special project you WILL eventually be paying for.
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I don't know about something else but if this fails I'd believe 1000% there will be some other tax put into place to make up for all the lost tax revenue. That's the catch with these things, sports teams hold all the cards. You aren't going to win. It's especially true for the Royals and Chiefs because they can move across state lines and use that as leverage. The teams move and it will cost Missouri and Jackson County quite a bit of tax revenue from fans, visitors, and of course players who pay tax on every game played in KC. Maybe it will be another project, but they will have to make up the tax revenue somehow.