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More business welfare

Sun., May 16, 2021

I found it very interesting that the front page headlines on Thursday’s May 6 paper contained articles on the Kalispel Tribe’s offer to buy the Spokane County Raceway and the school board approving a downtown stadium.

Both are examples of tax money being diverted to fund commercial interests without a consensus of the people. Just as we may be getting out of one failed business welfare plan are we getting into another? Do boondoggles abhor a vacuum? Time will tell.

Leon Schmidt

Spokane

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