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might be cheaper than a game at MetLife

This just in Cleveland not an NBA City. 2015 Eastern Conference Championship retroactively awarded to Atlanta.

Wasn’t Miller Park paid for by a tax increase and not a giveaway with nothing in return?

And the state would be losing out on 11M a year in “lost income taxes”. 0.025% of the state’s budget... gone. Oh man the egg on Wisconsin’s face!

Did you just say that Wisconsin is “breaking even” because they’re paying 250M towards the Arena? Thats what you call breaking even?

but you’re not even doing paying extra taxes to keep your team. You’re losing essential city services to fund the team. People that aren’t fans of the Bucks (At least 45-55% of MKE residents) are losing services/quality of life.

Conservative logic at work. “GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE RUN LIKE A BUSINESS!” (part of government shows a regular surplus) “ITS OK TO SLASH THAT PART OF GOVERNMENT THAT IS RUNNING A SURPLUS”

yes, it gives 250 million and then has to pay 400M in return! a net gain of NEGATIVE 150 MILLION.

yes 11M out of a 44B budget, so... 0.025% of the state’s budget gets wiped out. you act like this 11 million would make Wisconsin one of the wealthiest states in the Union.

Is there “Deadspin Gold” that I can give for this post?

The “unqualified workforce” trope is trotted out when lambasting big business, usually tech. Tech businesses are run by both liberals and conservatives, but primarily LIBS. If you think that trope is exclusively targeted at Conservatives, it just goes to show you how tightly knit big business is with conservatives.

Yes. Sure, people do miss the Sonics, but I can’t imagine how much worse our roads would be if we had paid for a 3rd new building in the span of 5 years.

I’m dying, but it makes “casual scalping”so much easier cause I don’t care if I don’t see the Seahawks play.

You might be confusing Milwaukee with Winnipeg. Milwaukee has about 35-37 days of snowfall per year. The average total annual snowfall for Milwaukee? 47 inches of snow. Now snow like that would shut down Seattle. I’m sure MKE can handle something they see every year. Or does Milwaukee shut down every time it snows an…

3% of Milwaukee would be served every working day by this trolley. Assuming that New MistaKE Arena is filled to capacity every night, what percentage of the population of Milwuaukee (city alone) would be able to use it?

Which doesn’t change the fact that the Bucks have a negligible-at-best impact on the economy of the region. The corporate money that would get spent on the Bucks would get spent elsewhere (Brewers, Admirals, cocaine dealers). The ticket dollars that would go to the Bucks would get spent elsewhere (Brewers, Packers…

...but you know Walker hasn’t attracted any business to Wisconsin, despite being “open for business” and slashing taxes on business and the wealthy and slashing employee wage requirements. Meanwhile in neighboring Minnesota, taxes and jobs are both up.

The Bucks may be the main tenant to Bradley Center, but on average, Marquette draws more fans. Losing the Bucks wouldn’t ruin the Milwaukee economy. The Milwaukee City Budget is 1.5 BILLION dollars. The Milwaukee County Budget? 1.3 BILLION. The Bucks are, quite literally, a drop in the bucket of the overall economies…

Meanwhile city services you actually need every day like roads, schools, and hospitals continue to get cut. But hey, you have a shiny new arena that at the very MOST will entertain 3% of the population of Milwaukee.

Its a 2 dollar ticket surcharge, and even if the Bucks were to sell out every game for the next 10 years (assuming it seats 18.717 like BMO did), thats $1,534,794 every year going to the arena., or 15 million for 10 years, not even 10 percent of the state/city/county’s obligation.