Super-Sized Subsidies
• Goldwater InstituteThe local Super Bowl Host Committee shoveled out about $17 million for the weeklong Super Bowl party in Phoenix. Some are lobbying to have the legislature make taxpayers bear more of the expense of bringing the Super Bowl back to Phoenix in 2012.
The 100's of thousands of people added to the economy here were herded into overly planned events that benefited select and favored entities. I was all over the Valley of the Sun during the Super Bowl week and local merchants hardly felt a thing.