Politicians love subsidizing developers, for all sorts of reasons. Few types of projects get as much corporate welfare — and deserve it as little — as professional sports arena and stadiums [stadia?].
The Minnesota Vikings just secured a half-a-billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies for their new stadium. Ilya Shapiro and Nick Mosvick have dedicated an op-ed to explaining why this sort of thing is a boondoggle:
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