Super-rich major league sports team owners continue tosqueeze money out of the publicby makingone city or state bid against another to subsidize the team.

Many years agoIcondemned this and proposed a federal lawto regulate such backwards competition. The ideawas that if a company makes location A compete against location B, any subsidy from A must getB's approval and vice versa.

For the specific case of sports teams, a law outright prohibiting all governmental subsidy tothem might do the job well, but the proposal above would help also in situations which are notcartels and which do work that is more important than artificial contests.