Pay to Play

Published November 27, 2013 6:27pm ET



Everyone could use a nice government subsidy and bailouts aren’t just for broke car companies and derelict banks anymore. Baseball teams need that same kind of taxpayer love. No surprise then, as Mark Segraves of NBC’s channel 4 in Washington reports:

The Washington Nationals want to put a roof over Nationals Park, and they want D.C. taxpayers to pick up the tab. 

The ballplayers are well paid, of course, and they don’t give the tickets away just for the asking.  Still:

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