OUR Sports Team Comrade

America's Number One communist is at it again:

• Sen. Bernie Sanders and Texas Rep. Greg Casar want communities to be able to buy a sports team before “billionaire owners” try to move it, very pointedly bashing the Chicago Bears’ effort to relocate to Indiana which Casar repeatedly likened to “negotiating with a gun” to the head.

  While it’s typically never a good thing for the Chicago Bears to be compared to the Green Bay Packers, a new bill would allow the Bears, and any other sports team, to be offered up for sale one year before sports team owners can move it to another state or metropolitan area. The legislation would lift a prohibition on teams being publicly owned, like the Packers are. The Wisconsin team is a non profit franchise in the NFL, with more than 538,000 shareholders.

  Casar even went so far to say that “this is a keep-the-Bears-in-Chicago bill” during a Washington press conference on Thursday. The Home Team Act would require an owner to announce that it wants to relocate a year prior, giving the community, not-for-profits or private investors a chance to buy it at “fair market value,” including through the community ownership model of the Packers. Franchise owners would be penalized if they don’t comply with the one-year notice.

The Bears are a privately owned business, so it's never good when government looks to force a sale of something they never owned in the first place. Especially an avowed communist like Bernie. 

Remember, this guy owns THREE houses and has never held a job outside of government. His wife ran and bankrupted Burlington University with a series of questionable real estate "deals" that cost the college upwards of $10 million - much of which was never adequately accounted for.

(::cough cough three houses? cough cough::)

The Bears should be paying for their own stadium, but the government shouldn't be anywhere near forcing ownership and location decisions, especially when they're how many trillions in debt and Bernie owns three houses.