Grabar, Henry. "How to Stop the Stadium Wars.

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Slate. The Slate Group, 17 Mar. 2015. Web. 01 Oct.
2015
This article focuses on solutions to the issues, namely Obama s budget fix
that would prohibit the use of tax free federal bonds for stadiums that are
primarily used by sports teams. The author also goes into depth on a specific
example of the Braves and their move from Atlanta to the surrounding
county, Cobb County, after Atlanta refused to pay the ransom and update
their stadium leaving the Atlanta taxpayers on the hook for the remaining
payments on the stadium. He also says that it would not be such a bad thing
if sports teams shared the profits with the cities.

What are some

possible
solutions to this
issue?
Stadiums. Perf. John Oliver. Last Week Tonight Stadiums. HBO, 12 July 2015. Web. 01 Oct. 2015.
This is John Oliver s Last Week Tonight Segment on this topic. He answered a
lot of my initial questions very thoroughly and also create new ones. He
describes all the different situations, or as many as possible, that the cities
are in. John Olive did not propose as many solutions as I thought he would, it
seemed a lot more like a general data dump about everything. He goes in
depth on why stadiums do not generally produce economic benefit.

Why do tax payers pay for large sports

stadiums for professional sports teams?

DeMause, Neil. "Do Cities Gain from Subsidizing Sports

Teams?" Do Cities Gain from Subsidizing Sports Teams?
Aljazeera, 21 Aug. 201. Web. 01 Oct. 2015.
This article by Neil deMause outlines what happened in Glendale, Arizona
where a struggling team that uses a city owned stadium went bankrupt and
was purchased by Canadian investors. The pair of investors began charging
the city for them to operate the stadium, this was in addition to the
mortgage the city was still paying on this stadium

Dorfman, Jeffrey. "Publicly Financed Sports Stadiums

Are A Game That Taxpayers Lose." Forbes. Forbes
Magazine, 31 Jan. 2015. Web. 01 Oct. 2015.

Why are
stadiums not
economic
boosters?

This article by Jeffrey Dorfman focuses on why exactly stadiums are not
economic boosters, his reasoning is that for money to go to the stadium it
has to come from somewhere else and while stadium related businesses may
see a boost unrelated businesses will not and will even see a downturn.
Moreover he explains why increased taxes from the stadium don t cover the
stadium cost even when you take into account out of town guests, he says
this is primarily because of the additional infrastructure costs that result.

What are some of the more

horrific examples of teams
taking advantage of cities