SeaBee_Gopher
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Should we be surprised at all that they are using fuzzy math to justify the spending?
"Part of the argument from McIntosh and lawmakers supporting the bill came from a report from a 2022 marketing report from eConsult Solutions that claimed each UW-Madison football game brings $19 million of economic impact to Dane County...
The type of hired marketing reports that eConsult Solutions provides are consistently rejected by sports economists who point out the flaws in the math used and how they do not factor in items such as diverted spending, crowding out effects and the costs related to large events and facilities.
Sports teams and athletic programs then use those marketing reports to justify public spending, the UW-Madison athletics officials are doing with AB 1034, which does not have a fiscal estimate attached yet."
https://www.thecentersquare.com/wisconsin/article_4c6defb4-3c94-49dd-a612-f00b42b64d6f.html
Hmmm. So a Wisconsin resident doesn't spend money on Badger football and that money just disappears from the economy, so here comes the government to save them! It's too bad those poor Wisconsin tax payers don't have any other fun, local ways to spend that money jingling around in their pockets. This is so goofy it's pretty much guaranteed the state of Minnesota does it next!
"Part of the argument from McIntosh and lawmakers supporting the bill came from a report from a 2022 marketing report from eConsult Solutions that claimed each UW-Madison football game brings $19 million of economic impact to Dane County...
The type of hired marketing reports that eConsult Solutions provides are consistently rejected by sports economists who point out the flaws in the math used and how they do not factor in items such as diverted spending, crowding out effects and the costs related to large events and facilities.
Sports teams and athletic programs then use those marketing reports to justify public spending, the UW-Madison athletics officials are doing with AB 1034, which does not have a fiscal estimate attached yet."
https://www.thecentersquare.com/wisconsin/article_4c6defb4-3c94-49dd-a612-f00b42b64d6f.html
Hmmm. So a Wisconsin resident doesn't spend money on Badger football and that money just disappears from the economy, so here comes the government to save them! It's too bad those poor Wisconsin tax payers don't have any other fun, local ways to spend that money jingling around in their pockets. This is so goofy it's pretty much guaranteed the state of Minnesota does it next!
