So there likely won’t be a NASCAR track in my ol’ Marysville neighborhood after all. The reason: The city and county balked at the heavy subsidies the developers wanted.

For all the talk this election season about conservative “NASCAR dads” as a target voting block, it turned out the stock-car circuit (via its corporate alter-ego, International Speedway Corp.) shares no self-reliance, private-sector-primacy ideology. It’s just as perfectly willing to live off the taxpayers’ proverbial teat as any factory farm or football team.