Top Posts

A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science and Rationality

Defund the CDC

Another Giant of Science Has Passed

Fifty Years of Statist Policies and Economic Fallacies

Unfortunately, We Can’t Decouple From Communist China by...

Dennis Avery, R.I.P.

Sports and COVID Risk

Thomas Sowell at 90: Understanding Race Relations Around...

Where’s the Beef (Spike)?

The WHO Follies, Redux

Tag

stadium

Budgets/Taxes Economics Featured Health Care Podcast

In The Tank (ep90) – Center of the American Experiment, Stadium Subsidies, and NY Universal Health Care

written by Donald Kendal

Budgets/Taxes Government Podcast Taxes
In The Tank (ep74) – SCOTUS Pick Gorsuch, Prison Overpopulation, and Public Funding of MLS Stadium

by Donald Kendal February 3, 2017

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #74 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Cato Institute, the Buckeye Institute, and the John Locke Foundation.

0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
Featured Podcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep49): Platte Institute, Illinois is Broke, and Stadium Subsidies

by Donald Kendal August 2, 2016

John returns to the show to join Donny in their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #49 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Platte Institute, the Illinois Policy Institute, and the Yankee Institute.

0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest

Budgets/Taxes Featured

Taxpayers Should Call Foul on Sports-Stadium Subsidy Handouts

written by Jesse Hathaway

Budgets/Taxes Featured
Green Bay Packers Model Gives Taxpayers Leverage in Stadium Deals

by Jesse Hathaway September 22, 2015

Elected officials often say using taxpayer money to pay for the construction or renovation of sports stadiums is an easy way to boost local economies and revitalize the flagging fortunes of downtown areas. But what really happens is that these teams pit cities against one another in competition for franchises, using their scarcity as a way of wresting ever-greater subsidies from taxpayers while team values rise to astronomical levels.

0 Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest

Supreme Court Hands Huge Win to Families on School Choice July 1, 2020
Under the U.S. Constitution, states no longer may prevent parents from choosing religious schools if they are participating in a school choice program.
Security for me — but not for thee June 30, 2020
Three Minneapolis city council members have private security officers protecting them at city expense.
The Culture War and the Progressive Delusion June 30, 2020
The culture war isn't fought in Washington.
John Roberts Outsmarts Himself Yet Again June 30, 2020
Chief Justice Roberts’s capricious application of stare decisis is startling. After all, stare decisis didn’t stop him from overturning precedent in Citizens…
Social Media’s Election Interference - American Greatness June 30, 2020
What Facebook and Twitter are doing is no less insidious than meddling by a foreign adversary. Their activity is political, not commercial.
Opinion | Woke Capital Targets Free Speech June 30, 2020
Advertisers want to turn Facebook into a political enforcement tool.
Trump Will Win If He Responds to Righteous Voter Rage - American Greatness June 29, 2020
The hour of reckoning is here. Either Trump will crush the lawlessness and win swing voters to his side, or he will listen to the trimmers and lose the country.
The Morning Briefing: Will the 2020 Rage Mob Survive a Trip to the Suburbs? June 29, 2020
A friend of mine recently said that you-know-what was “gonna get real when they start going into neighborhoods.”
Bethany Mandel: The Showdown is On: Teacher’s Unions vs. Kids June 29, 2020
With school districts across the country announcing their plans for next year, it’s clear that a battle is brewing between teacher’s unions and parents.
How Far Gone Is Big Business? Part I June 29, 2020
Small business remains generally conservative, but big business is mostly on the Left. How can that be?