The Death of A Welfare King

Art Modell, now deceased, was a paragon of our new Gilded Age.   Benefiting from a sweetheart lease on a public stadium and from being a parasite on the revenues generated by the city’s other professional franchises, Art Modell had one of the most valuable franchises in pro sports.   When the latter avenue of parasitism was closed to him, he demanded that the taxpayers of an economically depressed city build him a new stadium.  When they did not act quickly enough, he was the beneficiary of the welfare of the taxpayers of another economically depressed city (that had lost its team thanks to another welfare-bum plutocrat), and so the greedy scumbag couldn’t get the moving vans packed quickly enough.

Art Modell purchased the Browns for $4 million.   He sold them for $600 million.  The lesson here, I think, is that we need to slash upper-class taxes and programs for the poor, lest our Galtian job creators like Art Modell not be sufficiently motivated.

…since I’ve been accused of backing off previous invective, I should state for the record that the NFL cartel extorted the city of Baltimore and Modell benefited from this extortion to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.