The new stadium isn't about the Dome being outdated, etc. The state of Georgia controls a good bit of the revenue on beer sales, etc in the Dome, and building a new stadium allows Blank to tap into those revenue streams, not unlike his peers already do. Also, the tax payer money being contributed to the new stadium comes from a hotel tax, so it all comes from people who travel to Atlanta to stay in their hotels, not from local tax payers. And by law, these funds can only be spend on projects that will grow tourism,etc so it's not as if these funds could be used for other things.