After an early stint in Philadelphia, a few years in Kansas City and, since 1968, a home in Oakland, Calif., the Athletics are once again on the move. The MLB franchise has targeted a plot of land where the Tropicana currently sits for a new stadium in Las Vegas, and is demanding hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to move there.
This is a bad tax deal for Las Vegas, a bad deal for Nevada, and sets a bad continuing precedent for using public funds to line the pockets of private sports team owners. Nevada should tell the ownership ...