Roberts: A $225 million subsidy for Coyotes? Really?

Arizona Republic
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Laurie Roberts

http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2017/02/14/ro...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

The Arizona Coyotes want a couple of hundred million dollars in tax subsidies in order to build themselves a shiny new hockey arena.

Which is not to be confused with the couple of hundred million dollars in tax subsidies the Phoenix Suns will soon want in order to build themselves a shiny new basketball arena.

Which is not to be confused with the couple of hundred million dollars in tax subsidies the Arizona Diamondbacks will, no doubt, be angling to get to build themselves a shiny new baseball park to replace Chase Field, which evidently is fast turning into a broken-down piece of junk.

Which is absolutely, positively not to be confused with the couple of hundred million dollars the taxpayers of Glendale still owe on a hockey arena that has lost its shine.

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