If the outcome is that Chicago and Illinois stop subsidizing the team e.g. by building them a new stadium using taxpayer dollars, sweetheart tax bills, etc. ...? I have to say, as a former IL resident, I'd support that.
I saw this in my birth city. A minor league baseball team is courted, offered sweet heart deals, gets a stadium built on the taxpayers dime, and no one wants to go watch a game because the stadium was built in a crime-infested area and parking was too far and too expensive. And within five years, the team moved on to another city out of state, while that stadium sits unused. And the tax and business revenue never appeared. 💸
I visited Fort Pitt museum yesterday, had a great time visiting with a friend while touring the museum, and the parking lost cost $30 for the gunboat I was driving. 😳
After income tax in Washington the Seahawks are saying “Hold my beer.” I only have 59 summers on the blue and green ball but my observation is this, when a city/county/state government spends more time buying votes with handouts than taking care of school/safety/transportation, shithole status is soon to follow. There is actually a leadership theory to make shit so bad as to run off everyone that has a business or job and pays for taxes to manipulate the electorate for permanent power.
If the outcome is that Chicago and Illinois stop subsidizing the team e.g. by building them a new stadium using taxpayer dollars, sweetheart tax bills, etc. ...? I have to say, as a former IL resident, I'd support that.
I saw this in my birth city. A minor league baseball team is courted, offered sweet heart deals, gets a stadium built on the taxpayers dime, and no one wants to go watch a game because the stadium was built in a crime-infested area and parking was too far and too expensive. And within five years, the team moved on to another city out of state, while that stadium sits unused. And the tax and business revenue never appeared. 💸
I visited Fort Pitt museum yesterday, had a great time visiting with a friend while touring the museum, and the parking lost cost $30 for the gunboat I was driving. 😳
After income tax in Washington the Seahawks are saying “Hold my beer.” I only have 59 summers on the blue and green ball but my observation is this, when a city/county/state government spends more time buying votes with handouts than taking care of school/safety/transportation, shithole status is soon to follow. There is actually a leadership theory to make shit so bad as to run off everyone that has a business or job and pays for taxes to manipulate the electorate for permanent power.