Gov. Kathy Hochul claims that 10,000 union jobs can be created from the cope with the Buffalo Payments.
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The Situation: Gov. Hochul’s cope with the Payments to place $850 million in taxpayer money towards a brand new stadium.
In historic Rome, authorities tried to curry favor with the lots by providing free bread and circuses (“Hochul’s Daft Payments Giveaway,” Editorial, March 30).
Immediately, we've sports activities pork. Public dollars are getting used as company welfare to subsidize a private-sector enterprise.
The one actual beneficiaries of those expenditures are staff house owners and their gamers, who earn way over the common fan.
It's unimaginable to guage the quantity of recent financial actions that these so-called public advantages will generate.
Between season sky bins, concession refreshment and memento gross sales together with rental revenue for different sports activities, rock live shows and business occasions, why can’t the Buffalo Payments’ house owners finance the brand new stadium on their very own?
Skilled sports activities will not be a vital service and shouldn't qualify for presidency subsidy.
Larry Penner
Nice Neck
Our unelected governor makes an enormous $850 million deal for a brand new stadium in Buffalo.
Her husband, Invoice Hochul, is a senior vice chairman for a serious meals concessionaire firm. Anyone see a battle of curiosity on this deal?
No marvel the wealthy make tens of millions. It’s insider offers like this that go unopposed.
Vincent Conti
Staten Island
Earlier than spending $850 million of taxpayer dollars on a brand new stadium to tether the Payments to western New York, legislators ought to perceive its influence.
Gov. Hochul claims that 10,000 union jobs can be created. Nevertheless, these jobs will solely final two to 3 years except transforming the brand new stadium turns into an annual affair.
States and municipalities have been blackmailed by staff house owners who threaten to maneuver their franchises if calls for to construct new stadia aren’t met.
This authorized extortion has resulted in state-financed sports activities arenas, a.ok.a “welfare for the rich,” as a substitute of taxpayer dollars being spent on enhancing faculties, hospitals, libraries and different establishments of social betterment.
Paul L. Newman
Merion Station, Pa.
I like soccer as a lot as the following man, however who's Hochul to present away $850 million for a stadium that hosts eight video games a 12 months?
She may have constructed faculties, parks, day-care facilities or perhaps even a mud monitor so the children don’t must trip bikes on metropolis streets.
However not this genius. She selected to fund a billionaire who threatened to go away if he didn’t get his manner. To not point out, Kathy is a Buffalo native, and her husband is within the trade.
The state wanted all that federal COVID cash, and he or she spends $850 million to construct a stadium?
Did anybody ask me if that’s the place I would like my tax cash going? No marvel the state is broke. Folks like her hold getting elected.
Joe Micare
Malta
Gifting away $850 million of taxpayer cash to billionaire house owners to construct a brand new stadium in Buffalo is the peak of irresponsibility.
How we are able to justify any public cash getting used to construct these arenas at the present time is past me.
The humorous factor is as soon as the stadium is constructed, the price of tickets can be via the roof and unaffordable to the common taxpayer and household. One other instance of trickle up — not trickle down.
Tony Giametta
Oceanside
Hochul decides to fund the brand new stadium for the Buffalo Payments. So who foots the invoice? Taxpayers.
I imagine, as many others in New York do, that the Jets or Giants may very effectively use a brand new stadium positioned within the 5 boroughs which can be utilized by each groups, primarily killing two birds with one stone. This might create hundreds of jobs right here, together with tens of millions of dollars in income.
This appears to be a politically motivated transfer, as a substitute of doing the fitting factor for town, particularly contemplating all of the income misplaced through the pandemic.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
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