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Stadiums: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 16.1M views · 2015-07-13 · 19:08

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John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on cities spending public money on privately owned sports stadiums, including how tax-exempt municipal bonds subsidize them.

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Pointed to in debates over stadium subsidies as a persuasive case that cities should not pay for stadiums.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2022

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antattack · 2022-03 · Strong recommendation

John Oliver already settled this in 2015. After watching it, it's pretty clear that cities should not pay for stadiums. [VIDEO]

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joshstrange · 2016-02 · Recommendation

John Oliver did a good piece on this as well and how crazy it is that the public pays so much for these things: [VIDEO]

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toomuchtodo · 2017-10 · Reference

> Hey if it works for sports stadiums why can't it work to create a company town Because it doesn't work for sports stadiums. It works in the sense of corporate welfare, but it is not a net gain for the community. [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO] It's sad watching cities fall over themselves to give Amazon (a half a trillion dollar company) a handout. Handouts no one can afford . > (but where cities take the hit if the company town fails) As a country [1], states [2], and many municipalities [3], we're very much insolvent as it relates to future obligations. Could we please stop supporting reckless behavior making it worse? [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]

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