It’s hard not to play along when children come up with cute untruths. Back when one of my now-grown sons was just an Opie Taylor-like tyke, for example, he used to tell me matter-of-factly that if he didn’t go to bed, the moon wouldn’t rise. It was a reasonable conclusion based on his experience at...
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 741: Prospective owners are pushing competing plans to bring Major League Soccer to Charlotte or Raleigh. The Charlotte plan calls for taxpayers to foot the bill for most of the cost of a new stadium. Meanwhile, the Raleigh plan calls for private financing of a stadium that would sit...
Julie Tisdale, John Locke Foundation city and county policy analyst, explains why taxpayer support of new sports stadiums doesn’t make economic sense for Raleigh or other communities. Tisdale offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
North Carolina politicians face many difficult decisions. Whether to subsidize professional sports with tax dollars isn’t one of them.
