I’m not at all surprised that Pat Buchanan supports corporate welfare for millionaires in the form of taxpayer-subsidized baseball stadiums. After all, HE is one of the millionaires who would benefit from a stadium in D.C.

He is a notorious protectionist, and protectionism is nothing if it is not corporate welfare for the affluent at the expense of the general public. Advocating the plundering of working people for the benefit of the rich while posing a “populist” is the defining characteristic of Buchanan’s “economic” views.

If Buchanan really believed in the “community spirit” nonsense that he and other spout about taxpayer-subsidized sports stadia, he would do what his neighbor John Hendricks, founder of the Discovery Channel did and contribute HIS OWN DOLLARS for the construction of a sports facility. Hendricks, who lives in Potomac, Maryland, got interested in soccer when his daughters began playing the sport. He then purchased a plot of land and built several state-of-the-art soccer fields for the benefit of the community.

So Pat, put your money where your mouth is if you want anyone to take your “community spirit” rhetoric seriously.

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