Say What?
D.C. is getting a baseball team. Why will the city get the Montreal Expos?
"City officials have prepared a new plan they say offers Major League Baseball exactly what it has requested -- 100 percent public financing for a new ballpark if the Expos are moved to the nation's capital."
Oh joy. So, where are they going to get the money?
"The money would be raised through a new tax on large Washington businesses and taxes on tickets, concessions, merchandise, parking and other stadium-related sales."
Well, that's a good way to help the economy of D.C. Lord knows, the businesses in D.C. aren't taxed enough. Not to mention that a losing franchise easily sells tickets and merchandise no matter how expensive it all is after adding on the taxes.
Some people say that once you smell the Potomac River that it gives you a fever that makes you never want to leave D.C. I'm thinking it just helps to generate dumb ideas.
Sigh.
Posted by Mr. Eff on 04/09/2004 || link
