{"id":643,"date":"2006-11-16T08:57:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T15:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2006-11-16T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T16:20:26","slug":"if-the-sheep-are-going-to-be-sheared-anyway-is-it-wrong-to-sell-spectator-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/643\/if-the-sheep-are-going-to-be-sheared-anyway-is-it-wrong-to-sell-spectator-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"If the sheep are going to be sheared anyway, is it wrong to sell spectator seats . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comes news today that we are that<\/i> much closer to two new Food Stamps allocations to Major League Baseball<\/a>. The count so far this year is three Welfare-addicted baseball teams moving into two brand new, taxpayer-funded stadia. If you read nothing but the Arizona Republic<\/i>, you would never know that professional ath-a-letes and their empressariat make quite a bit of money. Cancel your subscription for three months and you might actually get the addle-pated idea that they can afford to pay for their own damn ballparks.<\/p>\n

Not here.<\/p>\n

Our public schools provide free breakfast and lunch all Summer long in even the wealthiest of suburbs, and the municipalities of Greater Phoenix have never once met an ath-a-lete who didn’t need a multi-million dollar hand-out. The quality of mercy is not<\/i> strained.<\/p>\n

Fine. Stipulated. This is the way things are, and they’re not going to change anytime soon. Metropolitan Phoenix grew faster than any American city by not<\/i> emulating the dumb stunts by which other cites manage to lose<\/i> population, but those days are done. We are still not as stupid as the cities celebrated by the celebrated Richard Florida<\/a> — cities attractive only to people who don’t have children — but we inch our way ever more Floridaward with every election. Again: Fine.<\/p>\n

My conundrum is that, as much as I hate these silly stunts, they turn out to be very good for my clients. Any rational economist is only too happy to point out that, in the long run, subsidizing the lesser producers of wealth at the expense of greater producers is suicidal — and who can walk the Floridian Utopias Back East without fearing that the collapse might come at any instant? We might spit in spite of John Maynard Keynes, who famously said, “In the long run, we are all dead” — but, alas, it’s true. In the long run, the policies that Phoenix is pursuing will result in the same civic, economic, cultural and demographic disasters we witness in the cities now feeding our population growth.<\/p>\n

But real estate is a medium run investment.<\/p>\n

We have a new football stadium on the west Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comes news today that we are that much closer to two new Food Stamps allocations to Major League Baseball. The count so far this year is three Welfare-addicted baseball teams moving into two brand new, taxpayer-funded stadia. 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