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Message: [QUOTE="azfan, post: 5268426, member: 7748"] Yep! You really raise a critical and important point. Can't help but think of James Buchanan and his analysis of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs. I'm not a Connecticut taxpayer I have the privilege of paying in Arizona. Therefore I bear none of the cost of the excellence of the University of Connecticut women's basketball program which I did a little checking on. In addition to Geno's 3 million you would guess CD in the assistants probably make another 2 million. In 2024 University of Connecticut reported that Athletics generated 57% of their expenses. We're talking millions of dollars and I believe the cost to taxpayers to subsidize and support Athletics at the University of Connecticut was around 35 million dollars. Now I do receive huge benefits and pay none of the cost . . . that is for the Huskies. But living in Arizona I am obligated to pay to subsidize Athletics. Part of this coerced support accounts for the vigor with which I pointed out the incompetence of the nice coach from Delaware and CAA coach of the year in 2021. If we're going to subsidize these programs we should expect some accountability and hopefully some excellence. I think it's also important that we acknowledge that this is entertainment. Given a finite budget we're enjoying this entertainment at the expense of very challenging issues that confront our society including homelessness, deteriorating education, property violence, criminal violence against humans, healthcare inequality will the list goes on and on and on. So that sad I'm delighted that we all have the opportunity to enjoy this level of entertainment and I think at least for me part of the offsetting responsibility is to make certain that above and beyond the coercion the state imposes upon me through a tax code that I do have respond to an obligation for charitable donations and investment in my time to ameliorate the real challenges facing our society. [/QUOTE]

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