PolicyGuy

Tuesday, March 30, 2004


Sports Socialism
Last year, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy decided to have fun with the costly taxpayer subsidies given to the Detroit Tigers. It calculated a subsidies per victory ratio. It was an attempt to illustrate the folly of subsidizing sports teams.

Apparently some folks in Wisconsin are taking the idea of "performance for pay" seriously. As Stateline.org reports, the Milwaukee Brewers are benefiting from $400 million in taxes for their new ballpark. Their lousy on-field performance has resulted in pressure for a financial audit of the club. Apparently it's going forward.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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