@OmSigDAVID,
Well, Dave that's where you are wrong. See I could care less if you agree with me or not. I was not rude to him until he was rude to me and others. I questioned his reasoning but then, like you, he quickly proved that if we didn't agree with him I was a crackpot liberal.. Your favourite dirty word.
I invite you to reread his posts. I'm sure you'll see that your new friend is not the warmest guy on the board.
What he fails to understand stand is that government coffers don't grow on their own. If his business gets a tax break, and a thousand people get welfare, they all take from the same pot. They all have their hands in the big cookie jar. The average middle class tax must make up the shortfall. It doesn't matter in the end which way the money was given or taken, if it's not there things will not be paid for, the government then runs at a deficit.
Again, give me a good reason the team should get a subsidy. If they can't run the team without it, who is it helping?