You are exactly right. If other, if other city councils didn't make those decisions, city managers didn't make those decisions, we wouldn't be spending hundreds of millions of dollars. So Texas Stadium was owned by the city of Irving, which meant that they didn't have to pay any property taxes on it. Sales taxes from food sales, alcohol sales in the stadium were rebated. Ticket taxes were rebated. The only thing really that the city got from it was $1.5 million a year in a lease. (00:35–00:41)
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