Quote Originally Posted by GOMU1104 View Post
Well, no, they cant just up and move to any city they want.

Either way...so you're OK with owners of professional sports teams holding cities/counties/states hostage and forcing them to build them $500 million facilities all on taxpayer money? That's ridiculous.

Again, as I said initially, Milwaukee is lucky in that they already have significant investments from Kohl and the new ownership group. Hopefully they can land a naming rights deal to add on top of that. If they don't, are you confident in a vote passing to approve public financing?
For the most part, depending on lease agreements, etc, teams can move to any city they want. See Cleveland Browns to Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Supersonics to OKC, Raiders from Oakland to LA back to Oakland, etc.

I don't know of any stadium where the city / state was expected to pay the full $500 million. The Packers have spent $500 million over the last 10 years, but that was a combination of tax money and team money.

I am pretty confident that Walker will allow a shifting of Bucks related income tax proceeds to cover a $150 million bond to help with new facility related costs. Crazy to give taxpayer money to a number of businesses that don't generate the tax revenue the Bucks / arena do, and then not do the same for Milwaukee.