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ASU, City Council, Current Events, Economic Sustainability, Golf, Jim Lane, Taxes

Super Stupidity: Super Bowl Economics

January 16, 2014 2 Comments

Thanks to a call from an astute ScottsdaleTrails reader, I was alerted to an article in yesterday’s USA Today which asks, “Is the Super Bowl really a boost to host cities?“ To put it mildly, the economic justification for host city contributions to the “non-profit” NFL are sketchy. And then in today’s Arizona Republic, Mary […]

City Council, Economic Sustainability, Ethics, Jim Lane, Taxes

Superbowl Welfare

December 17, 2013 4 Comments

In another Mary K. Reinhart article in the Arizona Republic yesterday, we learned some details of the Valley-wide, taxpayer-funded Superbowl welfare program into which the City of Scottsdale will pay $650,000 of your tax dollars for something we would get anyway: Visitors to Scottsdale during the Super Bowl. This is another stroke of genius by […]

City Council, Economic Sustainability, Ethics, Jim Lane, Media, Public Safety, Taxes, Tourism

Super Rich, Poor Goldwater

February 9, 2015 No Comments

I have to chuckle anytime I see Goldwater Institute get on their high horse about tax breaks and taxpayer-funded subsidies. In a paywalled article on the Phoenix Business Journal (“Helping the rich get richer: Tax breaks, subsidies, other incentives benefit big businesses and powerful industries“), Mike Sunnucks leads into what I think is an interview […]