In 1975, $55.7 million of public funding built the Pontiac Silverdome.

The NFL stadium in Detroit, Michigan was auctioned off today for $583,000.

That’s $7.25 a seat.

While it is tough to see how hard the the economic dowturn has hit Motown, this article from Bloomberg clearly identifies the dangers of siphoning tax payer dollars toward sports stadiums.  Billionaires have been buying sports franchises and successfully leveraging the local goverment and taxpayers to pay for their new toys.

It continues to happen today except the scale has climbed from 10′s of millions of dollars to billions in donations from you and me.

If you sit on the sidelines, these abuses on the sports fan will continue.

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