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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Government Waste Comedy Sports stadiums Subsidies Billionaires Crony Capitalism Government Spending Local Government

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mad.casual 5 months ago

I was keenly interested in how you got an inbox full of guns until you said "Epstein's Island of football teams". Now I'm less keenly interested in how you got an inbox full of guns.

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But SkyNet is a Private Company 5 months ago

again, in theory, correct, and usually correct in practice.

And then there’s Nashville. Anyone who was familiar with downtown Nashville before 1999 will know that an arena and a football stadium transferred the entire city

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TJJ2000 5 months ago

but, but, but ... the children and the poor people! /s
Nothing says 'helping' like more 'armed-theft'! /s

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SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad 5 months ago

What else am I supposed to buy for them? They have everything else. Very hard to shop for.

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Eeyore 5 months ago

Think of the stimulus if they paid for an escort to accompany you to the ball game?

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1. LIBtranslator 5 months ago
  
  Or an Epstein Island boy, to help you watch brawny pigskinners pat each other on the fanny and pile on in group gropes without benefit of Mazola. (Note to foreign readers: To Epstein Island Pederticians, a fanny is something young males have).
  
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LIBtranslator 5 months ago

It’s no secret that Christian National Socialist leaders in Germany recycled an airport for blimps into a grandstand for idi- and patriotic speeches. But our Christian National Socialists don’t have a war-surplus Zeppelin field for suckers to be led to to hear gospels. Billy Graham made a fortune preaching at Tampa Stadium and Tom Landry’s Texas Stadium in Irving (after having his brain drained). Build stadii so Elmer Gantry, Tammy & Jim can exhort the mob to ban plant leaves, female individualism, liquor, Jews and Sunday Baseball! Just like that we could be as well off as German Christians without the inconvenience of bombing England from blimps and then surrendering. Surrender your money to looter politicians so they can build arenas where Christians Surrender to Jesus, campaign and revel in spiritual and ethnic purity.

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MWAocdoc 5 months ago

The "intangibles" argument is also a fallacy and a lie. The only issue here is whether anyone should ever be forced to pay for something they don't want. An almost free market gives the maximum possible amount of freedom to each individual and - incidentally - results in the highest quality at the lowest price for everyone. Short of no government at all, the optimum system is the one where government provides services that ONLY the government can provide such as, for example, law enforcement and national defense.

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