Fuquay-Varina wants volunteers out of the way of kids' sports | The ...

Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:51 am, by Jon Sanders

As a prologue, recall the ?Yellow Pages Test?:

Years ago, the first libertarian I encountered introduced to me the concept of the ?Yellow Pages Test?: If it?s in the Yellow Pages, the government doesn?t need to do it. ? Now I think the Left has their own Yellow Pages Test: If it?s in the Yellow Pages, the government hasn?t taken it over yet.

Now the news from Fuquay-Varina (emphasis added):

Fuquay-Varina town leaders want to begin offering recreational youth and intramural sports, which have been run by a volunteer group for the past 22 years.

Town commissioners are expected to vote Monday evening on a recommendation to offer a recreational youth sports program that would include baseball, T-ball, softball, soccer, volleyball, football and cheerleading. The measure would not include teams that play in travel leagues. ?

But the Fuquay-Varina Athletic Association, which has administered recreational and sports leagues for the town since 1989, says it doesn?t understand why the town would decide to take over a significant portion of the responsibilities associated with operating a youth sports program.

It says the town?s move is unwanted and unneeded.

Written by Jon Sanders

Jon Sanders (twitter.com/jonpsanders) is Director of Regulatory Studies at the John Locke Foundation. A columnist for TownHall.com, Sanders has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, ABC News online, FrontPage Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, the Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous newspapers throughout North Carolina. A native of Garner, N.C., Sanders has been an adjunct instructor in economics at North Carolina State University, and he holds a masters degree in economics with a minor in statistics and a bachelors degree in English literature and language from N.C. State.

Source: http://lockerroom.johnlocke.org/2012/08/06/fuquay-varina-wants-volunteers-out-of-the-way-of-kids-sports/

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