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Re:Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums by notSupplied on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:06PM (#18842451)
It was originally not a terrible idea. You can be a poor family owning a cheap home, and rising property values can push up your property taxes to the point where you suddenly can't afford to stay in your own house.

Sure they could sell the now very valuable home and downgrade, but I find it inhumane to force someone out to "downgrade" from a home they already own.

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Re:Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums by titanomachy on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:47PM (#18842611)
They could take out a line of credit on their house and still be vastly better off than they were before the housing boom. Sure, they might not be overnight millionaires, but hopefully they didn't buy their homes _expecting_ the value to triple within a decade.
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