"taxing everybody, including people like me who would pay money to stay out of the stadium"

I guess that's the answer. Let's call it the "I don't want to use the stadium" tax.

"but by charging some of the people who use it, season ticket holders, a fee -- a "personal seat license."

Actually how they do it is their business - provided they use voluntary means to fund it - PSL's may or may not be a good option for them.

The thing I like about Amy is she would argue the same thing about art and museums

The elephant in the room, which these sports- and art-lovers are ignoring, is that government funds don't grow on trees. The taxpayers are forced to pay, in what would be called a protection racket -- literally -- if you or I did it for ourselves.

Police, judges, and troops enough to keep the peace can justify that kind of force. No lesser "need" can.

No American should need to be told this.

I will say that I agree in general that I shouldn't be paying for stadiums, museums, galleries and the like.

I will put an exception in for the military museums. But the large majority of staff at them are volunteers and not paid for. So it is a matter of just funding the buildings and tax free land.

Indeed. I have always hated government subsidies for art. I happen to like theater, and concerts, and certain types of dance. I pay a ticket price to go see it. However, it's almost always small, independent amateur or semi-professional outfits that I go see.

Why should cities be spending my tax money subsidizing the ballet, the orchestra, or whatever? If they cannot survive on their ticket sales, they do not need to exist, at least not in their present form.

Football fans are squealing in both horror and delight that the 49ers are leaving decrepit Candlestick Park for a new coliseum in the heart of Silicon Valley, 45 miles away.

I wonder, when the gravy-train tax boat shows up at the Santa Clara County door and demands to be filled, if the fans will remember that they're the ones who wanted this boondoggle, or if they'll blame, oh, Obama or somebody ostensibly 'liberal'?

Meanwhile, San Francisco will now have a huge block of valuable real estate freed up for better uses, and the cycle of scam will thus continue.

Amy, here's a collection of posts at the Coyote Blog about the absurd public spending on the NHL Phoenix Coyotes.
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/tag/hockey

The blog is about a lot of things and certainly not hockey specific.