Officials Respond To Public Records Request On Bengals' New Stadium Deal

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(07-11-2019, 11:06 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Actually, the Bengals staying in Cincinnati has done a great deal for the area.  There are businesses that benefit from the team being here, including restaurants, hotels, and the casino.  As far as what he has done for the actual taxpayers and league, it is a little bit harder to quantify.  The tax rate where I live is still higher than that of Hamilton County, and I don't protest it at all....It goes to providing great schools and parks, among other things.  

I wouldn't call the tax that went to the stadium as "screwing the public".  It is a very small % and I think overall helps our community and surrounding areas.

Want to know what is "getting screwed"?   I went from married to divorced in 2018 and it was finalized in October of 2018.  I always withheld my federal taxes at a single person rate....it doesn't make a lot of financial sense to allow the government to hold on to my money, but I always liked getting a refund....usually around $1000.  Something always came up that it handled.  Well, since I am now divorced, my tax rate went from something around 25% to nearly 34%....only because I am no longer married.  I owed $12,900 on my federal taxes and was only "single" for two months.  It didn't matter.  You are taxed on how you file.  Getting nut-punched for nearly $13,000 after an already hugely expensive marriage termination was not fun.  I have no idea why someone that is married saves money on taxes over someone that isn't.  And it wasn't like I wanted to be single again.  Although now I realize I'm much better off.... 

Ok, off soap box.  We now return to our regularly scheduled Bengals discussions.  

There’s literally nothing right around PBS. The Banks and all the bars and restaurants are a few blocks away next to the Reds stadium, and I find it very hard to believe the casino benefits all that much from the Bengals games considering it’s on the complete opposite side of the city. It’s also much different than people going down to Great American Ballpark 81 times a year. Football fans mostly tailgate which means bringing their own food, drinks, etc. Do the 8 home games a year (sometimes less when Mike agrees to play in Europe for that $$$) really bring in that much? I doubt the hotels even do that well. The biggest game that out of town fans travel here for is Pittsburgh and Cleveland, both of which they can just drive all the way home afterwards.