Williams: Why not take Cincinnati Reds, Bengals stadium tax back to voters?
Ask columnist Jason Williams anything − sports or non-sports – and he'll pick some of your questions and comments from his inbox and respond on Cincinnati.com. Email: jwilliams@enquirer.com
Message: How about letting Hamilton County residents vote on the stadium tax again? Cincinnati, as a city, does benefit from having the (Bengals), but not necessarily do the residents. For those of us living in the burbs, we get nothing but another tax to pay. I want another opportunity to vote on it.
Reply: Interesting you bring this up. There is an influencer movement afoot to start a conversation about potentially taking the stadium tax back to the voters once the original debt to build Paycor Stadium is paid off in 2032.
The idea is being floated by some proponents of a new arena. Take the stadium tax back to the ballot, only this time include funding for a new arena in addition to ongoing money for the Reds and Bengals venues.
Cincinnati City Councilman Seth Walsh, a new arena proponent, and I talked about this on my 700 WLW radio show last Saturday night.
I'm not sure the math would work out to squeeze in arena funding, considering the cost to upgrade Paycor Stadium alone is projected to be around $1 billion. And it won't be too long before the Reds come asking for major upgrades to Great American Ball Park, which opened in 2003.
Hard to see the Bengals and Reds going for sharing the stadium tax money with another venue. But it's merely an idea right now and at least deserves to be heard before rushing to judgment.
As is, the half-cent sales tax – which voters approved in 1996 specifically for the two stadiums – does not have a sunset clause and would take a vote of the Board of Commissioners to turn off the never-ending money spigot.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Is Reds, Bengals stadium tax way to pay for new Cincinnati arena?
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