Would it really be that bad if Oakland and Alameda County taxpayers dug a little deeper into their pockets to keep the Raiders in town?

Yeah, I know the team hasn’t won a championship in three decades and hasn’t been to the playoffs since the 2002 season. But it’s tied for first in the AFC West, so there’s hope. And, even an NFL franchise that’s worth, according to Forbes, $2.1 billion needs taxpayer love.

It would be all for the public good.

Think about it. We’re already saddled with $95 million for erecting Mount Davis, the 10,000-seat expansion of the Oakland Coliseum that lured the NFL team back from Los Angeles in 1995.

What’s another $750 million?

For starters, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf needs to stop putting taxpayer interests ahead of the well-being of Raider Nation.

Look at Nevada. It had few qualms about raising taxes for a football stadium. Last week, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval put his signature on a plan to allow Las Vegas to raise $750 million in hotel tax revenue so it can be handed to Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino mogul who said he’d build a $1.9 billion super stadium for the Raiders.

And Raiders owner Mark Davis is so grateful for Nevada’s enthusiasm, he’s pressing to get even more out of the deal. I’m not so sure Adelson is happy about that though.

“They want so much,” Adelson complained to Reuters in an interview this week about his stadium negotiations with the Raiders. “So I told my people, ‘Tell them I could live with the deal, I could live without the deal. Here’s the way it’s gonna go down. If they don’t want it, bye-bye.’”

Oakland, we got this.

Let’s take a walk through the city and county budgets and I’ll show you where to find $750 million. I mean, come on, people, do we want to fix boring, old potholes, help the homeless, improve public transit and feed the needy when we can subsidize a team that brings so much joy and excitement to our region?

In July 2015, the Oakland City Council approved a $2.4 billion two-year budget. A little more than 40 percent of it goes into the city’s general purpose fund. That means no strings attached, right? So let’s start there.

For the coming year alone, there’s $519.9 million available in that pot.

Of that, $11 million goes to the libraries. Nobody reads that many books. We have the Internet, and there’s a lot of stuff on there that you can get really fast.

Then, there’s a $6 million general fund allotment to buy more than 600,000 lunches for children, youth and seniors. People are fat, and they should eat less.

And what’s this $2 million for housing and community development? And the affordable housing trust fund? Give me a break.

And, don’t get me started on the 134 city parks. There’s $15 million set aside in the general fund for parks and recreation. Seriously, folks. There are too many parks, and we don’t need any more bike lanes.

Then there’s police. Do you believe we spend $218 million a year from the general fund on that department? I mean, isn’t violent crime on the decline anyway? Aren’t activist groups demanding we eliminate police departments? Oakland can lead the way.

On top of all that, Oakland has way too many public schools. And they’re constantly asking taxpayers for more. More to rebuild the schools. More to buy new books and pencils. Does it ever end? Given the choice, people will send their kids to private school or simply start a charter.

The budget is bloated, really.

Alameda County’s no different. It spends $676 million alone for public protection. That’s 23 percent of the county’s $2.97 billion budget. On stuff like jails and sheriff’s deputies.

And if people really don’t want to cut public services, we can do more debt. After all, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump swears by debt. Says it’s a good thing.

And, believe me, I believe everything he says.

Otis R. Taylor Jr. is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist whose column appears Tuesday and Friday. Email: otaylor@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @otisrtaylorjr