Wisconsin lawmakers on Thursday heard a proposal for over $614 million in funding being directed toward stadium improvements at American Family Field in Milwaukee.
The chief architect of a plan to hand the Milwaukee Brewers more than $614 million to cover stadium improvements defended his proposal Thursday in front of a legislative committee, promising the deal will keep the team in Milwaukee for another generation without new taxes. Republican state Rep. Rob Brooks has developed a pair of bills that call for handing public dollars from the state, the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County to the team.
He spent the next hour and a half promoting the proposal but cautioning that it was still a work in progress. He stressed that the package creates no new taxes, instead using income taxes on players' salaries as a funding stream. He warned that if the Brewers were to leave Wisconsin the state, the city and the county would lose tens of millions of dollars in income and sales taxes. That revenue loss could translate to dips in state aid to municipalities across the state.
Under Brooks' proposal, the state would give the team $60.8 million next fiscal year and up to $20 million each year after that into 2046. The city of Milwaukee would contribute a total of $202 million and Milwaukee County would kick in $135 million by 2050. The team would contribute about $100 million and extend its lease at American Family Field through 2050, keeping Major League Baseball in its smallest market for another 27 years.
The governor told the Wisconsin State Journal on Thursday that he's concerned about how much the city and county will have to contribute but he'd probably support any stadium proposal that comes across his desk.
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