I read that the city government of Nashville gave the NFL $3 million as part of the deal to hold the NFL draft there.  It’s probably a lot more when one counts all the police overtime, thousands of portable toilets, public works cleanup after 300,000 drunken football fans, etc.  Among the major beneficiaries of these handouts, besides the NFL billionaire team owners, appear to be the wealthy country music stars who own bars and restaurants on Music Row where more than 100,000 extra customers per day gathered for the better part of a week.  Blake Shelton, Dierkes Bentley, Luke Bryan, … Continue reading Corporate Welfare in Nashville