WTHR-TV's Mary Milz treated us to another propaganda piece on the importance of the City of Indianapolis hosting another Super Bowl in 2018 this morning. Milz used the Legacy Center on the city's near east side to stage her latest propaganda piece. She begins her story by attempting to tug at our hearts by telling us about an obese man who would not be alive today if the Legacy's fitness center had not been built to help him get in shape. Apparently we're to believe that this gentleman had no access to a YMCA or one of the multiple other fitness centers located throughout the city prior to this fitness center being built. Everyone with whom Milz spoke at the center thought it was a good idea for the city to host another Super Bowl. One family visited the Super Bowl Village and rode the zip line. Yippee!
The NFL Super Bowl selection committee will announce this month a short list of cities vying to participate in the annual racket the fake nonprofit organization conducts to see which city is willing to offer the largest subsidy to host an event that only benefits the NFL owners, their players and a handful of local hotels and restaurants. The proponents will tell you that hosting the Super Bowl has an economic impact of over $150 million, a number they toss around without any substantiation. In reality, it costs more money for a city like Indianapolis to host a Super Bowl only a small number of local residents can afford the admission price to attend than it actually generates for the local economy after totaling up all the added public safety costs, infrastructure expenditures, host committee expenses and displaced business activity that would have otherwise occurred from regular convention business for which no tax subsidies or tax exemptions must be offered.
Maybe we'll throw away another $18 million on a regional operations center our public safety officials can't use if we're successful in landing another Super Bowl or another $13 million to remake Georgia Street. Whatever may come we'll be told it's all good. Any source
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