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Las Vegas NFL stadium would need $750M taxpayer subsidy, largest in history

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In the tug-of-war over the Raiders, stadium proposals in Oakland and Las Vegas could offer no starker contrast.

On the one side is the city of Oakland, whose current stadium proposal offers, in taxpayer money, zero dollars and zero cents. Las Vegas, on the other, has a taxpayer subsidy that makes zero sense.

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In fact, according to multiple reports, a panel meeting Thursday in Nevada pinpointed the taxpayers' piece of the $1.4 billion stadium project at $750 million.

If accurate, that would make the proposed stadium project on the Strip the most expensive — by a long shot — in terms of public financing in NFL history, Bloomberg.