🚀 go-pugleaf

>
>    My guess is that the Expos will end up in DC, at the New York Avenue
> site.  Virginia pols will be under a bit of extra budget heat because of
> the stalling of car-tax repeal and the veto of death-tax repeal, and they
> don't have a realistic site (Pentagon City is too congested and too close
> to two points of security concern, Rosslyn is too expensive, and Dulles is
> too far out).

I guess the VA budget "crisis" has a silver lining!

There is no reason to TAX folks who make $10/hour just so some baseball
players can pull down $20 million.

>
>    (In a rational world, where a team owner who wants a new toy is
expected
> to pay for it himself, RFK would be fixed up, but we don't live in a
> rational world.)

States, Counties, and Cities bidding for baseball teams (and factories, etc)
are like a young woman looking for the best offer to select her husband.
After a time, she starts to look like a whore!