Haven’t posted in a minute… just been swamped writing and working–like most of you to be sure. Anyway, here’s my two cents before christmas:

In Washington DC all hell broke loose because the taxpayers of that town had the crazy idea that the Montreal Expos-turned-Washington Nationals should actually foot the bill for most, if not all of the new stadium they want.

What is it with sports franchises and paying for stadiums? Sports is a business and a stadium is what most businesses call “overhead”… Where do these fools get off demanding that taxpayers, particularly those who don’t like sports should have to put in for a stadium? McDonalds doesn’t make locals pay for building their restaurants… Hospitals don’t make local communities pay for building a hospital. Why? Because they’re private institutions and overhead is the cost of doing business.

or am I missing something?

I’m in Chicago where they built a new Soldier’s Field a couple years back. the thing is big and ugly and expenseive–something like $300 Million… all taxpayer funded.

The way taxes work is if you put in for it, you get to use it for free. We don’t have to pay a fee to drive down the street. Why? Because our taxes go to build and maintain the streets. We don’t have to pay to attend public schools. Why? Because our property taxes pay to build the schools. We don’t pay fees for a lot of services for one simple reason: our taxes already pay to build and/or maintain these things.

With that said….

Every taxpayer should be allowed to attend games for free. Otherwise, cut us a check and give us our money back!

now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go take out a loan so i can afford bears tickets for next season.