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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A football team and stadium is an amenity for the region, like parks, museums, and libraries. It isn't just about economic benefits. I'd love love to see the Commanders return to DC.[/quote]

NFL teams aren’t public goods….. I hope that helps…[/quote]

a local sports team is absolutely part of a public cultural good that a city is well justified in promoting and supporting, just like the arts and recreation. Hope that helps! [/quote]

I'm genuinely curious as to why you think that the current Commanders stadium - located a short 20 minute Metro ride from the RFK campus - doesn't allow the team to serve as a "public cultural good" in its current incarnation?

Watching live football is a nice hobby to have. I also partake. I have other hobbies as well. But it's not reasonable to ask every current and future DC taxpayer to pay for your hobbies, especially when we have a mountain of studies that show that building shiny new football stadiums do very little for the economic and cultural lifeblood of cities like DC. [/quote]

obviously … because it is not in DC.

But by your reasoning why should any government support any recreation? so much for the museums, pools, parks … [/quote]

This is a good question and one that is well answered in most introductory economics classes.

I'll spare you the economics lecture here, but the argument for public funding of things like museums, pools, parks and other forms of public facilities and services hinges on the argument that these facilities generate benefits for the general public - improved public health, activities for otherwise idle teenagers, preservation of history - that extend beyond those who directly use the facilities.

Large stadiums generally do not generate benefits for the general public over and above those who attend - and can pay for - events that are held there. Unlike museums, pools, and parks, stadiums generate revenue that benefits extremely wealthy people who are perfectly capable of financing the construction of the stadium and associated infrastructure.

There is really no good reason why the taxpayers of DC should even partially finance a stadium, especially when there is already a very good stadium just 20 minutes down the blue and orange lines.[/quote]

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