Isn't it great that mob rule doesn't always carry the day in a republic such as ours? In city after city hotheaded loudmouths have stood on soap boxes decrying the use of their precious tax dollars to finance billionaire owners and millionaire players. In city after city, gleaming new stadiums have gone up anyway. With the exception of Milwaukee and a few other baseball venues, recriminations don’t seem to follow. The new facilities become centerpieces of civic life. The whining detractors disappear like snow in the spring.
When anti-stadium types temporarily get their way, as in Cleveland and Houston and Minnesota with it’s earlier hockey team, really nasty things happen. Teams pack up and head for cities hungry and willing to pay the price. Maybe it’s not right but it’s a fact. After the depth of the loss is felt, deep remorse sets in. The collective conscience of the community is awakened, and a massive premium is paid to regain a new team when the old team could have been retained earlier at a much lower cost. Their bluffs having been called, the anti-stadium loudmouths disappear from editorial pages and airwaves to wipe the egg off their collective faces.
Kudos to the Pennsylvania legislator that did the right thing, and was willing to pay a personal price for exercising wisdom in the face of foolishness.
As for the rest of your suggestions for conservatives, yep. Government ownership of property is socialism. You wanna go to Yellowstone, pay for it. Leave the rest of us out of it. Same goes for football games.
Yellowstone Park is a manifestation of socialism? How about the local playground? Teaches kids evil collectivist values I suppose. How about your local airport and air traffic control? Should be financed completely by airlines, I guess. Airlines are a private business after all. Owned and operated by rich people to boot. Let them build their own infrastructure. Keep me out of it. I don’t like to fly anyway. I used to like it back in the ‘70s. Then I started to read about all those pilots showing up drunk and beating their wives. They’re just not worthy of a saint like me and they can’t have my money. Damn socialists all of them. I’ll just continue to drive. After all, driving is a purely capitalistic endeavor not requiring me to mooch off my fellow citizens. What? Roads are socialist too? Oh, never mind.