Manfred: Taxpayer Funding Of Stadium Construction Is A Quality Of Life Issue [Video]

Manfred thinks politicians should spend money on stadiums.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred knows part of his job description includes being a lobbyist and finding public money for his 30 owners if any of them need a new or renovated stadium and they don’t want to pay for all of the venue’s cost by themselves. Manfred is now pushing a new line. Building a stadium is a quality-of-life issue. Oakland Athletics’ owner John Fisher wants $380 million from Nevada taxpayers to help fund a Las Vegas baseball park for Fisher’s business. Manfred is trying to justify the expenditure.

Manfred told the Associated Press that baseball provides a boost to an area’s economy and it makes sense to help finance a stadium although that has never been proven to be true. “There has been a long history of public financing of not just baseball but sports venues in general. Expenditure, public funds that people have seen as justified …