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Richard on December 10, 2018 at 5:52 pm

Even when these deals claim to have no up tax payer money, they usually do contain a significant amount of public money going into them.  

The stadium might be privately financed, but the roads and infrastructure around them are usually funded by the public

The stadium might not contain any public money for construction, but the stadium might get to keep a portion or all of the sales tax collected at the site.  Or it might contain a hotel where the stadium gets to keep the hotel tax.  Both are 365 day a year holes in the public budget.  

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