This year, Major League Baseball’s opening day was the earliest it’s been in the modern history of the game. On March 29, 28 of the 30 MLB teams kicked off their 2018 season (two were prevented by the weather in Detroit). From now until the end of September, calls of balls, strikes, and home runs will be heard throughout the nation.
Fans will cheer and boo as their teams’ fortunes rise and fall over the next few months, but there’s one call that should echo in every hallway of our nation’s statehouses: a call to end taxpayer-funded corporate welfare for sports teams.
Elected officials often justify using taxpayer money to pay for the construction or renovation of sports stadiums by arguing it helps to create local economic growth. In reality, corporate welfare is a losing proposition for the very people elected officials claim to be helping: the taxpayers.
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BOOOOOOOOOOO!
ReplyDelete(figured I'd start my boo'ing now since the home team is LOSING more than winning!)
Happy Friday!
The big lie is exposed.
ReplyDeleteThis is the thing you choose to take a stand on? Republicans have been prioritizing the 1% and wealthy corporations over the American people for decades and your big tiff is with stadiums? Yawn.
ReplyDeleteOh, no! Let's see here. Fans want baseball. What do they not want? obama. Ick! Trump => yes! Liberals cry cry. Nancy pelosi (ick!> No!>
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ReplyDeleteSo exactly what are the dumbocrat priorities?
Illegals over citizens?
Legalizing dopers?
Corrupt justice department?
I.R.S. targeting political adversaries?
Identity politics and placing every group into a box?