Why is it so hard to get a stadium built? $100 million doesn't help?!?

If athletes pay $100 million in taxes a year, that money would go to a lot of things in the state. If California was a country it would be one of the biggest economies in the world. It has a lot of people and a lot of expenses and taxes it takes in are allocated by Sacramento across the whole state. So take that $100 million and spread it across all of Ca., and it's not as much as it sounds. Now if Oakland or Sac. were to get $100 million tax revenues themselves, that might make a difference. Stadiums and arenas are always tied up in all kinds of discussions over priorities. I like sports as much as the next person, but is it more important than schools, crime, etc. is a question I always ask myself. Also some of the team owners are pretty greedy in wanting state money to pay for arenas for their private teams. I find it pretty hard to understand how these proposals work. A stadium might be paid for by the city, but owned by someone else, and then there are issues over who gets money from the gate, parking, concessions, etc. In general I have trouble feeling sorry for owners who cry that they'll have to move their team if they don't get a new facility to replace one that's only 10 years old, but they pay ridiculous salaries to their players.

I really don't know how it works. That tax money collected doesnt just go into sports, it goes into the whole economy. Maybe the sports budget in California is a little low right now. I live in Winnipeg, Canada, and they are looking to build a new $120 Million to $140 Million stadium. Most of it would come from tax money, the rest is going to come from on man. Maybe California needs someone to step up with their own money and do it.

I won't pretend to understand how half the stadium thing works, but my guess is that it's (taxes) going towards the usual crap, such as the neverending freeway projects and the constant and expensive repairs of them. I swear, as soon as they finish working on one section, another one's starting. Someone once told me the numbers on all of it and it was pretty ridiculous, but hell if I can remember how much now as this was a few years ago. I would think that building a stadium might help the area it's being built in to some degree, if not, then at least with bringing in more taxes off of sales and the whole mess.