{"id":18743,"date":"2025-07-23T18:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18743"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:45:46","slug":"trump-should-kill-commanders-stadium-deal-but-not-because-of-the-teams-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18743","title":{"rendered":"Trump Should Kill Commanders Stadium Deal, but Not Because of the Team&#8217;s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;stadium subsidies are a bad deal for the cities and states that make them. &#8220;Studies conclusively show subsidies create little to no new jobs and open gaping wounds to public finances,&#8221; Americans for Prosperity&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/americansforprosperity.org\/blog\/why-stadium-subsidies-are-a-bad-deal-for-taxpayers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote last year<\/a>. &#8220;The fancy new stadiums might be a good deal for the teams and politicians who voted for the funding, but they are a terrible deal for taxpayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump is not opposing subsidies for the Commanders&#8217; new stadium because he has wised up to the economic case against public funding for private projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, Trump opposes the project\u2014in his telling\u2014because the Commanders dared defy his wishes by switching the team&#8217;s name to one he doesn&#8217;t like as much.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/21\/trump-should-kill-commanders-stadium-deal-but-not-because-of-the-teams-name\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/21\/trump-should-kill-commanders-stadium-deal-but-not-because-of-the-teams-name<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;stadium subsidies are a bad deal for the cities and states that make them. &#8220;Studies conclusively show subsidies create little to no new jobs and open gaping wounds to public finances,&#8221; Americans for Prosperity wrote last year. &#8220;The fancy new stadiums might be a good deal for the teams and politicians who voted for the funding, but they are a terrible deal for taxpayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Trump is not opposing subsidies for the Commanders&#8217; new stadium because he has wised up to the economic case against public funding for private projects.<\/p>\n<p>No, Trump opposes the project\u2014in his telling\u2014because the Commanders dared defy his wishes by switching the team&#8217;s name to one he doesn&#8217;t like as much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/21\/trump-should-kill-commanders-stadium-deal-but-not-because-of-the-teams-name\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,1597,1871,170],"class_list":["post-18743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-sports","tag-stadium","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18744,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions\/18744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}