Tag: stadium subsidies

Government Neglects Public Parks, Raises Taxes, to Subsidize Private Stadium

June 10, 2016 | Post

A county in Georgia is raising taxes in order to pay for public parks, even as it spends $400 million to fund a new stadium for the Atlanta Braves. Further, while citizens of Cobb County voted in favor of funding public parks, they weren’t given a say about building the stadium. As Reason reports: …in […]