MLB, You're Out! (I hope.)

by Liberty and Power

Kudos to the Cato Institute for perhaps helping to save the taxpayers a bundle of money to lure baseball to Washington, D.C. The Montreal Expos were set to move to D.C., attracted by the bait of a fully tax-financed stadium. But then the city council voted to require private matching funds. Baseball is now balking. Word has it that Cato's paper by Dennis Coates and Brad R. Humphreys played a role in the switch. Check this out.

Raspberries to Major League Baseball and its policy of extortion. If it needs to steal from people to support itself, it can go to hell.

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Kenneth R Gregg - 12/23/2004

Oh well,
Local politics is like the weather, always blowing this way or that. Now it appears that the "Black Hole" of taxes (not to be confused with Texas) is going to get their team, and perhaps only slightly less onerous to the local taxpayer.
Tempus Figits.
Just Ken

Kenneth R Gregg - 12/20/2004

Oscar Goodman, Las Vegas Mayor, now fronting for the casinos, is preparing to hit a home run with getting a MLB team here in Las Vegas. We've already got the land in the central part of the town, and just waiting to get the word to put in an entirely privately-owned, privately-constructed and privately-run baseball structure. With all of the multi-billion dollar private cities (or casinos, for all you who think that's all they are), baseball will look much different here!
Just a thought.
Just Ken
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