This weekend’s column over at Townhall.com looks at something we see too often everywhere: politicians subsidizing rich people’s sporting endeavors … on the backs of normal folks. Come back here for sources and resources, if not recourses:
- Letter to John Dangberg, PDF, from Patrick M Soluri and Jeffrey L. Anderson, re: the arena proposal
- “Will Sacramento Be a Sucker For the Kings?” by Mark Paul, Zócalo
- “NBA Handout? Let Voters Decide,” by Mark Paul
- “Judge knocks down Santa Clara 49ers referendum, appeal likely,” by Neil deMause, Field of Schemes
- “Mayor Kevin Johnson,” Wikipedia
- “Mayor reveals ‘very strong’ bid to keep Kings in Sacramento,” by Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee
1 reply on “Townhall: Subverting Democracy to Subsidize Billionaires”
[…] That any city would spend a year’s worth of tax revenue on an arena for a billionaire’s sports business is hard to stomach. That a city government would do it unilaterally while trying to block a vote of the people, impossible. [further reading] […]