| Cambria, Somerset County, PA | April 22, 2008 Election |
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Tax Dollars for StadiumsBy David S GehlmanCandidate for State Representative; District 72; Democratic Party |
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My position on how new stadiums should be funded.This is a subject that should be looked into and most Pennsylvanians should express their concerns and frustrations on this issue. I don't feel the State should continue to fund these stadiums with hundreds of millions in taxpayers' money for sporting teams who have the same people using the stadiums game after game. The seats in these stadiums are sold out to the same 68,000 plus season ticket holders year after year. The state funded more than $250 million dollars to build Heinz Field and yet you can't buy a ticket to a Steelers game. When we as taxpayers do this, we subsidize the team owners so they can then pay multi-million dollar contracts to all the athletes. They then turn around and take the money from their salaries and buy homes and luxury items all over the world with our tax dollars. The state should put a surcharge on all tickets at stadiums they fund until they recoup the state portion of money that was used to build the project. The state also should have a luxury sports tax for any athlete that signs million dollar plus contracts to help keep some of that money in our tax system. |
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