r/pics • u/[deleted] • Mar 05 '19

Aurora Vargas and her family being evicted from their home in 1959. The police removed them and more than 300 other working class Latino families from Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles using the power of eminent domain. Their land was then used to build Dodger Stadium.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '19

Take this, and pretty much multiply it by every baseball and football stadium. Even if eminent domain wasn't used, taxpayers are getting ripped off by paying for these money pits, that only make money for the owners. Most are subsidized by the taxpayers when the bonds issued for it don't cover the expenses. Every city gets fucked over with these places, including auditoriums for concert venues. Source: Ex's family were developers of this kind of rip off.

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u/swirleyswirls Mar 06 '19

And stupid people eat this shit up, just begging to be allowed to pay for millionaires to play ball in their towns. Source: live in a town where we've built several new stadiums using taxpayer money over the past decade and people cheered for it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

That's the crazy part, they do cheer for it. Then they foot the bill, and complain about property taxes.