The "Bucks Tax"

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Some sports-pundit was yammering on TMJ the other night that 'if the Bucks were not "supported" by Milwaukee (that is, if taxpayers don't cough up mega-millions for a new arena), they would leave and the NBA will never grant another franchise to the town'.

That's an interesting line of thinking, no?

"Support" = "Spend Money on Them."  To the tune of a couple hundred million dollars.

The Metro Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce is leading the charge for a new tax.  This is the same bunch which supposedly favors small government and tax-reduction, right?  The same bunch which tells us that taxation reduces economic activity, right?  And that Governments should stick to the essentials, right?

I have searched every word of the Wisconsin Constitution and cannot lay my fingers on the passage which mandates an "arena tax."  Education?  Yup.  Justice?  Yup.  Documents and records?  Yup.

Professional sports support?

Nope.