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Government Waste

Stop Buying Stadiums for Billionaires!

Sports subsidies suck.

Andrew Heaton | 2.6.2026 10:45 AM

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If sports is a trillion dollar industry, with billionaire team owners and millionaire players, and hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic fans, and weird pervert mascot creatures, why is the government giving them your money?

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Andrew Heaton is a producer at Reason. He is the author of, most recently, Tribalism Is Dumb: Where It Came From, How It Got so Bad, and What To Do About It.

Government WasteComedySportsstadiumsSubsidiesBillionairesCrony CapitalismGovernment SpendingLocal Government
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