Sports Stadium Near Me (Prospectively)

[ndrosen]

I was already against Governor Youngkin’s attempt to subsidize a stadium in Alexandria for a sports team-owning billionaire, but there’s more: from what I’ve read, part of the deal is to direct the taxes from employment generated by the stadium to the team owner, so if John Smith works as a basketball player or a hot dog seller, his Virginia income tax will not be applied to general public uses, but given to the owner of the team.

I think that it would in any case be folly to give special favors to a particular business to move to Virginia and supposedly generate more tax revenue for the Commonwealth, but if any such tax revenue is to be given away, the case against the deal becomes all the more compelling. I plan to let my delegate and state senator know where I stand on this.