Vikings Stadium

Recently in my marketing class a group presented a project promoting the construction of the Vikings stadium. The current estimate of how much it would cost to build the new stadium would be around $953,916,000 according to football.ballparks.com. The Vikings are currently trying to get the government to support the construction and in turn pay for a majority of the stadium through tax increases. Arguments for both sides of the Vikings stadium have been heard. People have stated that the Viking stadium would offer employment to residence, draw people from across the country and keep the Vikings in Minnesota. People against the stadium have been against the thought of Minnesota residence paying for the stadium through taxes even if they do not watch football or attend football games. Personally I find that the argument should not be why we should have the stadium but what we could do with that money instead. Being strongly pro-education I think about how many teachers have been laid off and the disintegration of our educational systems and I wonder why we are even debating a stadium.