How millionaire owners of professional sports teams shake down the taxpayers
Arizona Diamondbacks CEO Derrick Hall wants $187 million of MY money!!!!
How millionaire owners of professional sports teams shake down the taxpayers for $187 million in corporate welfare
Dear Editor:
So the Arizona Diamondbacks want almost $200 million in corporate welfare from the taxpayers of Maricopa County????
The way this works is first Arizona Diamondbacks CEO Derrick Hall makes the outrageous demand to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors that the taxpayers of Maricopa County give him almost $200 million in corporate welfare or he is going to take his marbles and move else where.
Next the taxpayers of Maricopa County are outraged and write letters complaining to the politicians that they are tired of giving their hard earned tax dollars to the millionaire owners of professional sports teams.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors reacts the same way, saying they have already given the Diamondbacks millions and that the Arizona Diamondback don't deserve even one more penny of the taxpayers hard earned money.
Of course now things get interesting.
Next the Arizona Diamondbacks give the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors a big fat "bribe". I'm sorry, did I say big fat "BRIBE"? I meant a big fat campaign contribution.
Magically the minds of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors change overnight and it's no longer $200 million waste of money,but a $200 million investment for the citizens of Maricopa County.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors unanimously approve the $200 million in corporate welfare to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The taxpayers get ripped off again!!!!
Sadly that's how politics works.
Mike Ross