Posted on 06/22/2022 9:01:03 AM PDT by rintintin
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has picked another fight with progressive corporate America, this time the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team. When he signed the state budget last week, Mr. DeSantis zeroed out $35 million to help build a new site for the Rays’ spring training. “I don’t support giving taxpayer dollars to professional sports stadiums, period,” he said Friday.
This is a good policy that too few states emulate, and Florida taxpayers can be grateful that their Governor has a line-item veto and is willing to use it
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Not a big fan of MLB but they can always move to Peoria, Arizona.
Let them become the Tampa Bay Gays and let the lbgtfjb+ fund them. I am done with mlb.
Thank you, Governor DeSantis!!
Finally a government willing to stand up to corporate America and its decades long scam of bribing the taxpayers.
Shame Kemp and the rest here in Georgia happily throw taxpayer dollars down the drain.
The Gov picked a fight????
Thats like saying the Crusaders one day woke up and said lets pick a fight with those innocent muslims in the holy land. What BS
MLB was the one sport I stuck with, as it’s relative dearth of Black players made it miss the kneeling nonsense. But seeing the Gay Rays fiasco plus my Mets having a TRANS flag flying at CitiField, and the Coca-Cola neon sign they brought over from Shea displaying the stolen rainbow colors, is just too much. I am officially done.
If taxpayers don’t get a cut of ticket, broadcast, and concession sales, then why the hell should they be paying for the business costs??!! Unless they are suckers...
Desantis is a sports fan. Wasn’t he captain of his Yale baseball team? But that doesn’t mean that wealthy MLB owners need tax subsidies
Maybe they can go hat-in-hand to Disney and sell them the naming rights. The Tampa Bay Disney-Pixar Grooming Arena has a nice ring to it.
I always liked the game of baseball but MLB is ruining the game and the fun of watching it.
They have turned it into wokeball and turned off the fans.
LOL! The Tampa Trannies.
Sports teams have no trouble paying players millions of dollars a year, they should have no trouble paying for their own stadiums
The Detroit Tigers have the Mets beat. Not only did they have the Pride BS, they are contributing to a fund that helps pay for gender mutilation surgery for minors.
Being a sports fan and taking money STOLEN from the taxpayers to fund or subsidize anything, whether stadiums-teams-film industry-EV car plants,are two totally different things.
About 99% of the time the people have no say in whether the money or how much is given.
Again…..the people are ROBBED of everything when this happens.
No longer “ of the people, by the people, for the people”. It’s a Governor and his cronies saying EFF YOU to the voters and taxpayers.
Only now do we understand the decades of rampant man-man butt slapping in baseball. LOL
The Tampons
I only wish more states would start doing this, I’m sick of taxpayer money being used to construct stadiums for their billionaire owners. They must think we’re suckers for allowing such a thing.
Are you implying that all that towel-snapping in the locker room was just foreplay?
Tampa Bay Gays? Well, they are in St. Pete. That town has really gone downhill since it has become a gay mecca.
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