Stadium tax districts don't raise new revenue to pay off the stadium, they cannibalize existing tax collections. You would think that the city which funded the Power & Light District boondoggle would remember this financing strategy doesn't work.
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Sep 28, 2026 · 1:55 PM UTC
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Stadium districts are one of the many fiscal illusions that stadium boosters use to claim that a public stadium project will pay for itself. From my book chapter on different types of stadium financing: doi.org/10.1093/978019782024…
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