TAILIEUCHUNG - Mastering skills for the toefl ibt part 11

Tham khảo tài liệu 'mastering skills for the toefl ibt part 11', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Mastering-Books_5 2 13 PM Page 793 construction of the stadium itself providing thousands of local construction jobs. Once regular season play begins an army of local workers is required to man the stadium facilities for everything from concessions and ticket sales to security and administration. The economic benefits expand throughout the district of the stadium as fans pour into the area from far and wide. These fans support local parking decks restaurants bars shops and often hotel facilities. This contributes to the prosperity of local businesses and provides a general boost to the overall property value. All of this revenue is of course taxed by the municipal authorities. Combine this with the millions of dollars in tax revenue that ticket sales can generate over the life of a sports team and we have a clear benefit for all members of the community. These benefits are easy to see but the intangible benefits may be greater still. A professional sports team with regularly televised broadcasts is often the hallmark of what people generally perceive as a major city. Thus the sports team becomes a kind of advertisement for the significance and prosperity of the city itself attracting new business from the outside. Some may say that the costs of new sports stadiums are an undue burden on cities but all of the long-term benefits must be taken into account before passing hasty judgment on the economic effects of professional sports franchises. Step 2 Sports stadium not A GOOD INVESTMENT 1. Jobs created REPLACE other jobs or PAY LOW wages 2. Most money goes to MANAGERS AND PLAYERS 3. Tax revenue VERY SMALL compared to THE INVESTMENT 4. Team s BENEFIT to the city s IMAGE difficult to measure Step 3 Reading Stadiums create jobs Stadiums produce tax revenue Boosts city s image Lecture Does not create new jobs takes money out of city Revenue gains are small compared to investment PR benefit is vague claim funds better spent elsewhere Step 4 The reading states .

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