Soccer paying its own way while NBA multi-millionaire owners and players get subsidized by the taxpayers. Totally stupid.
That’s just my opinion.
Same reason your local mom and pop has to pay for a new facility but if Toyota was thinking about building a factory there they’d get tons of incentives:
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Politicians can brag about big time sports and big time companies being brought to or kept in town, nobody cares what they do for small timers, so they don’t do anything.