Alexis Garcia has produced a video for
Reason.tv showing how an NFL franchise is not a good idea, especially
for cash-strapped cities.
“The NFL is good at fleecing taxpayers,” ESPN columnist
Gregg Easterbrook and the author of
The King of Sports: Football’s Impact on America told Garcia. “It’s about a billion dollars a year I’ve calculated in
public subsidies to NFL owners and this is a group that consists almost
entirely of billionaires and yet receiving significant public subsidies
every year.”
The organization closely resembles the
corporate class sucking the life blood out of America. Like banksters
and transnational companies, it depends of corporate socialism. It
buys politicians who agree to use tax dollars to subsidize operations and build lavish stadiums. It is owned by
billionaires. (See an interactive
Muckety map here.)