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Let’s drop the gloves and cut right to the chase.

Using tax dollars to build professional sports stadiums is an inexcusable and reprehensible example of corporate welfare!

How municipalities can argue that the practice benefits the public at large is an insult to even the marginally literate. Spending tax dollars to build professional sports stadiums is an example of government blatantly pandering to the rich, for reasons that are completely without merit. Any citizen, whom genuinely embraces democratic principles, should be incensed over this issue. Civic leaders responsible for the proliferation of such a travesty should be immediately removed from office.

All professional sports franchises have been established as for profit corporate entities. Even the Green Bay Packers, owned by the city’s rabid fan base, are expected to make money. As such, every franchise should be held as equally accountable as any other for profit corporate endeavor. For example, let’s say I want to open a restaurant. Is it the responsibility of government to construct a publicly funded building, to accommodate my restaurant? Of course not. However, countless cities across the United States make exceptions for sports franchises.

Unlike schools, roads, or public libraries, professional sports stadiums serve no genuine purpose, where the common good of a municipality’s population is concerned. Professional athletes are entertainers. As such, they are grossly overcompensated. However, if fans want to throw good money after bad, this is a decision for them to make. No laws are being violated here. So called exotic dancers are also entertainers. What’s next, using public funds to build, shall we say, gentlemen’s cabarets? Give me a break!

Sports franchise owners argue they can’t make money without publicly financed stadiums. What a bunch of sniveling whiners! If I’m unable to make money with my previously mentioned restaurant, then I go under and suffer the consequences. Professional sports franchises should be held to the same standard. No exceptions. And, by the way, doesn’t revenue sharing guarantee a profit for every team in any league that embraces collective revenue principles?

Look, I’ve said before you don’t need to have a PhD in Economics to understand the following. If professional sports stadiums were the immense cash cows civic leaders would have us believe they are, then the private sector would be erecting them in rapid fire succession. The reason private investors won’t get near them is obvious.

They aren’t profitable.

Sorry, oh well intended civic fathers and mothers. Do your homework.

They aren’t profitable.

Be honest with you constituencies.

They aren’t profitable.

The role of government is to operate in a manner that meets the needs of all citizens, not just the few, whom willingly drop a couple hundred bucks per game to be sensually and emotionally titillated. There is no place in a free market and, supposedly, democratic society for the public financing of professional sports stadiums. It’s as un-American as, say, corporate welfare.

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