re: #11 Kragar

New Minnesota Vikings Stadium A Boondoggle Before It’s Even Built

Just because they figure out a loophole in order to do it never necessarily made it the right decision to go through with it. (And note that they were avoiding public feedback to *not* buy the Vikings ownership a new stadium on the public dime.)

Same games got played in western PA back when Three Rivers Stadium became obsolete. Referendum on a plan to raise taxes to pay for new stadiums was voted down, so “Plan B” was pulled out by local executives to use bonds and other means to put up a pile of public money for the construction.