Something all of us can agree on. End corporate welfare!

I said this from the beginning. “COVID relief bills” have nothing to do with covid relief.

Sports stadiums should not be considered infrastructure

And after funding the billionaires stadium, the taxpayers get the treat of spending over 200 dollars to go there for 3 hours. Not to mention the 25 dollar beer and hot dog.

I was having a good morning until I clicked on this. Now I am back in my "hate the government" mood again. Thanks John!

Imagine paying taxes for a football stadium then having to pay $100.00 for a ticket to get into the stadium you helped pay for while the owner has his own box .

Thank you John Stossel, you are an American patriot.

Love John Stossel; When I was a Kid, I watched 20/20 just to see what he would do. I am happy to see him still doing it.

The letter after the politician's name doesn't matter anymore.

John Stossel is a national treasure. Protect him at all costs. Change my mind.

Imagine if the main stream media were to show these types of reports that John creates. Imagine if every reporter was just like John......

CORPORATE farmers are better off, but small-time family farmers often aren't.

The politicians don’t call each other out on this and just continue stealing from us. It’s so frustrating!

I'm fine with people being rich. I have zero issue with it. I have a problem with the government making people rich.

“Give the people bread and circuses and they will never revolt” ---- Juvenal, Roman poet AD 60 to 130

I wish millions of people would watch these videos from Stossel...the stories he exposes are absolutely incredible. The things people are getting away with is sickening.

Just the tip of the iceberg. Canceling the Keystone Pipeline, a direct gift to Warren Buffet and his railroad conglomeration. Six months later your cost of gasoline rises by $1.00 a gallon.

The worst part is when governments hand money out to other countries for kickbacks.

In Colorado the budget, despite being in a pandemic, was recently approved and saw an increase in spending by $4 billion next fiscal year which begins in July. During the pandemic they supposedly cut spending but the money just got moved around for pet projects around the state. To top that, state employees are receiving a raise despite the economy being shit. It’s utterly ridiculous!

Kudos to you John. This is REAL investigative journalism. You have my utmost respect for the work you do. It allows us to see what is really going on. Thank you John!

Thanks John! The only man left in media with balls and brains

After Arizona granted county commissioners the authority to levy tax, the first thing they did was gift Jerry Colangelo a new stadium. When the citizenry questioned the wisdom, Jerry, on camera, thumbed his nose and said, "too bad, its a done deal." The open contempt he displayed toward the chump citizens was psychopathic.

We need to tax the rich ! No , stop giving billions to corporations .

I live in Vegas. I asked many people about our taxes going for the stadium. They all say the same thing, " it creates jobs". Insanity

Government wastes so much, it's impossible to track it.

We’ll learn one day that we are being used. By whom? Yes, exactly.

Only when our Lord JC comes back there will be justice... and NO MORE POLITICIANS!!!

Intelligent, straight shooters like John don't come along very often

Don’t be distracted folks! Pay attention to all the bills and all the lies we are constantly fed.

As a San Diego native I'm glad the city told the chargers to kick rocks

Thank you Mr. Stossel for speaking the truth and being so blunt. I don't mind paying taxes for the benefits of all people. Enriching the rich with or hard earned money is so wrong.

Meanwhile, it has been more than two months since I submitted my taxes and my refund is still not available.

I live in Philadelphia never liked sports. Then when they said city taxes are going to pay for Lincoln financial field I was pissed. Not everyone watches sports

Every Bill brought before the house should only have one item on the bill; and only one🤯

"Just don't, just stop." Short, sweet and to the point.

I’d vote for John Stossel!

The government doesn't fear the docile sheeple.

Politics is the problem, not the solution.

I was born and raised in Indianapolis, I believe building our football stadium is what built our downtown to what it is now. We built the 1st stadium before we even had a team. So the stadium brought the team. Before the colts we only had the Pacers and that wasnt a big enough anchor to build a downtown around. The stadium help build the convention center and over the last 30 years downtown Indianapolis has become a convention destination of the midwest. This city has benefited greatly from building that first stadium. The second stadium is another story.

'Hero act' is as heroic as the Ministry of Truth is truthful.

I really don't understand how everyday democrats and republicans look at this data and don't start VOTING DIFFERENTLY.

Never understood why tax money is used to build stadiums. Especially football where they only used for 8 regular season games and maybe a few preseason and post-season if they are luck. How much money can you get back in that short of a time? Plus they want to renovate a brand new stadium in a few years for a few 100's million more.

Being able to keep wealth you created is not a handout. Government not taking money isn’t a welfare program. Rather than close these loopholes, I want them opened up so more businesses and people qualify

I don’t always agree with Stossel but I do respect that he always stays consistent to his own values.

Sports teams cost cities far, far more than they bring in.

Keep doing what you do, John. We the People need to know.

John Stossel for President!

Great reporting. Corporate Welfare

Taxes for politicians and their friends.

20 years ago, our small town almost subsidized a sports stadium for all the reasons your program described. A small independent radio station brought the true financial history of such projects to public awareness, stopped it, I t became a thriving business center instead. The powers that be ruined the radio station.

I'm a federal employee. For three months last year, I only had to get up and call to find out if it was time to come to work yet, and I got paid. Then I got my Economic Impact Payments on top of that. I couldn't go anywhere, I didn't need to burn gas to go to work, but I got more money than I normally got. (Well, not really. I'm swing shift, so I lost my night differential. But I saved because I didn't have to put wear on my car and use gas.)

Nice to see videos criticizing both parties, not just one, and also at all levels (county, state, federal)

I did learn something John, I learned that NO ONE CARES, this country is going down hard and those who have warned of this are being silenced and ignored, buckle up butter cups, things are only going to get worse.

Just wrote a paper on this for my Microeconomics class. The government is given too much power.

Whenever & Wherever I am elected, Stossel is my econ guy.....

It's honestly despicable how money is thrown away, never audited, never followed up on, always wasted and always repeated the following year

The Vikings stadium is so nice that I can't afford to go inside.

I just got on KZfaq and it bugged out really bad without me even touching my screen and somehow ended up here. This is the best technical mistake I’ve witnessed.

Thank you for the news!!!

End all property taxes

Taxpayers need to fund stadiums so that millionaires can take a knee to remind us of how our subsidies oppress them.

The government needs to stop wasting our tax dollars.

Farmers have a lot of wealth in terms of their land but I don't think they're as flush with cash as you think. Especially when companies like Monsanto keep a death grip on their production / supply. But I agree with the rest of your sentiments.

Lol as a self employed trucker, I was a hero and got thanked everywhere! Until there was enough toilet paper on store shelves 😆🚽

USA, this is bad enough, but now imagine taking farms away from professional farmers and giving the land away to folks who dont have a clue how to farm in the name of “land redistribution”. Zimbabwe. And teetering on the brink.. South Africa.

why am I not surprised even slightly

It's astonishing how broken our system is...

I don't vote for stadiums, I don't go to a stadium to watch anything. Gives new meaning to stop paying taxes.

Without taxpayers we can’t live in luxury.

Wait, they jacked up the tax on cigarettes to pay for the stadium, right ? When they raised the sales tax to pay for a stadium, it never went back down after 10 years.

Good argument to reduce taxes by 95%

Government waste has gone on since the beginning of time and now it is growing at exponential rates. We fund the NFL through stadiums and by paying for their minor league in our public colleges and universities. Inflation is now setting in due to the latest COVID spending. Things are going to get very ugly and our current economy will look like the good ole' days.

Years ago I built a plant in Kentucky. They had a great way of ensuring accountability for tax breaks. They relieved employer portion of payroll taxes up to X amount. You hire 1 person, it may take 10,000 years to get your money. You hire 1,000 people you get it over 10 years. Accountability....something most government entities are not used to.

1. A spending his own money for himself: very careful 2. A spending his own money for someone else: careful 3. A spending B's money for himself: not so careful 4. A spending B's money for C: not careful at all

I like John Stossel. I like his delivery of the news and his perspective.

We all should be able to agree on this

People just need to pay more attention to who is running and who they are connected to. Get the lobbyists out of DC and this bullshit won't happen anymore. Thank you again, Mr. Stossel...you are the beacon of truth in these dark times.

I stopped watching sports about 5 years ago. Now, I look at other people who talk about "the game" and can't understand why anyone's life would be so intertwined with a sports franchise or game outcome.

Still cant believe john is 74 years old! You look good for your age!

John Stossel covering pro wrestling in the 80's on 2020..."but it's fake!" Yep, 66 yr old now for me and still can't get enuff...of this funky stuff. Stay safe John Stossel the Great!

Why don’t we just skip the middle man and we taxpayers can just flush our money down the toilet.... oh wait we already are!!!

39 years on earth as someone from a family full of farmers and have yet to meet a rich family farmer.

Welfare for the rich is an issue in this country. They should be competent enough to generate income without tax payer money

It's time to kick out the corrupt politicians. We The People need to take back our country. Thank you.

Mr. Stossel your journalistic integrity inspires me to no bounds, you’re an American Hero in every sense of the word

I own a business. I took no PPP loan. I got zero in stimulus. And yesterday my accountant said I'm short by $10k on my federal taxes. Where's my damn bailout? So sick of paying for everybody else.

I hardly ever agree with Stossol, but I completely agree with him on this one. I like social democracy such as Finland or the Netherlands. Corporate welfare is not as robust in those countries. They have a good mix of social programs and capitalism. They are the happiest and most economically moble countries on earth.

This is why we love you Mr. Stossel. Keep up the true journalism, sir!

Now here’s a topic I don’t see enough. I wish I would hear more people asking, “Why can’t the team build the stadium?”

My dad's family is in farming, and growing up as a kid hearing about their experiences with the government really opened my eyes to just how corrupt and ineffective it is. I cant speak to any tax breaks they may or may not have gotten/be getting (just outside of what was talked about with me), but they really seem to only get massively screwed by the state. Decades ago, a large amount of land was taken from them via eminent domain and they were nowhere near properly compensated. Like I dont have the actual number on me, but it was a disgustingly pitiful amount per acre. And this was so serious that a large divide in the family was actually formed over whether to sue the government over it or not, but they didnt in the end. And more recently, an overreach I got to witness happen myself was when the government redid this canal, but in doing so, they cut off the water supply for months and months to a large area of my uncle's land, killing entire fields of crops. These crops had been a nearly decade-long investment that had only started producing product for the last couple of years, but now they were all dead. And the government couldnt have cared less. Just disgusting. It's very possible that my father's generation will be the last actual farmers and that the land will just all be sold soon, since they're getting older, and of my cousins and I, only 1 of us is regularly involved with the farming/ranching. It's sad, but what can you do? Just seriously not an easy business. Edit: This is California for reference. Edit 2: Also, I am still against subsidies/tax breaks for random industries, but I also think that governents need to be more easily held accountable when they screw people over in matters involving land. Maybe even abolish eminent domain altogether (altho that'd take an Amendment). I think it's an important part of the conversation in this case.

So true that once the government starts giving subsidies, they never stop. That’s why every new Bill that hands out money should be deeply considered by every individual taxpayer

This is why we need to look at what is in these spending bills. Question the $2 trillion spending bill.

Peasant: I cannot pay. These taxes are unfair! Lord: You talk a lot of shit for someone with such a flammable house!

I remember last year when they gave emergency financial aid to colleges to hand out to students at their discretion. My college just gave money to anyone with a Pell Grant. Little did they know I had started a high paying job that semester that wasn't cut because of covid. They never checked if my financial situation was the same as the previous year. Even the Pell Grant itself is based on income from two years prior. My parents could have been making six figures my last 3 semesters and we still would have gotten it.

I appreciate the consistency of dinging the handouts given out by the left and the right.

I am so sick of our government.

Love Stossels common sense and logic !!

stossel's take should be shown in every highschool

In New Jersey you just need a chicken scoop to be considered for a farm tax break. Lol. Everyone now owns a chicken coop

Glad Stossel finally tackled this topic. In a capitalistic society wouldn’t the taxpayers (investor) get a ROI? Cheaper tickets? Free games? None of that. So what would that be called?