Stadium greed may cost hospital

In the '90s, greedy sports team owners asked for - and got - 2 new stadiums in Cincinnati to replace Riverfront Stadium, which was still a perfectly good venue and was only 25 years old.

This was financed by a sales tax increase - a regressive tax. The county's poorest citizens were robbed to pad the inflated egos of rich team owners.

But the stadium fund is so unsustainable that county commissioners are seriously talking about fixing the shortfall by cutting the $22,000,000 that goes to University Hospital each year.

So health care has to suffer just because a stadium that would now be only 40 years old wasn't deemed sufficient by team owners?

I say cut the damn stadium funding before cutting hospital funding. It would serve the teams right for fleecing the taxpayers.