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Arizona Taxpayers Fight to Stop Funding Space Balloon Tourism

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Taxpayers in Pima County, Ariz., have filed a lawsuit challenging county officials’ decision to subsidize a private company’s space tourism business.

“Pima County has agreed to give $15 million in taxpayer money to a private company that’s a space balloon business,” Jim Manley, a senior attorney at the Goldwater Institute, told The Daily Signal. “Basically the intention of the gift is to allow the company, World View, to expand into tourism.”

Pima County officials negotiated a $15 million agreement with World View Enterprises, Inc., for the county to build a facility, including a launch pad for high-altitude ballooning, for World View to lease for 20 years. This happened despite Pima County voters, located in the south central region of Arizona, recently rejecting ballot measures that proposed hundreds of millions of dollars slated to go toward tourism and economic development.

In November, the voters rejected, by a two-thirds vote, proposals that included $98 million for tourism promotion and $91 million for economic development and workforce training, according to Goldwater Institute, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based public policy think tank…. read more here


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