Fan ownership, not stadium welfare, would be best for sports fans and taxpayers

This year, Major League Baseball’s opening day was the earliest it’s been in the modern history of the game. On March 29, 28 of the 30 MLB teams kicked off their 2018 season (two were prevented by the weather in Detroit). From now until the end of September, calls of balls, strikes, and home runs will be heard throughout the nation.

Fans will cheer and boo as their teams’ fortunes rise and fall over the next few months, but there’s one call that should echo in every hallway of our nation’s statehouses: a call to end taxpayer-funded corporate welfare for sports teams.

Elected officials often justify using taxpayer money to pay for the construction or renovation of sports stadiums by arguing it helps to create local economic growth. In reality, corporate welfare is a losing proposition for the very people elected officials claim to be helping: the taxpayers.

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