Posted by Dave on 09/17/08 at 08:56:20 am
Categories: Sports Ravings

When it comes to professional sports, we become socialists. With everybody else, we’re capitalists.

From NY Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, on state subsidies for the New York Yankees stadium.

Tax payers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to help build the stadium, and we have also found out that the Yankees have been lobbying for $66 million in tax breaks.

The Yankees are arguably the wealthiest professional sports franchise in the United States, yet they are subsidized by tax payers at both the state and federal levels.

Where are the "small government" Republicans on these issues?

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