easy choice

This week we've had two suggestions as to how to improve the lot of Taiwan's professional sports:

1. Use public money to promote it:

KMT legislator proposes tax break for sports fans

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chang Hsien-yao (張顯耀) said yesterday that he planned to launch a proposal that would allow taxpayers to list tickets to sports events as tax deductible.


2. Clamp down on the mafia-run gambling on sport:

Illegal betting turns fans off Taiwan baseball
Chung Yi-min would go to a baseball game almost every month and watch many more on television until four or five years ago, when the 36-year-old fan started getting fed up with the nation’s most popular sport.
“If they don’t catch balls I get suspicious because these are professional players,” said Chung, who works as an event planner and has watched baseball since childhood. “Everyone will think that the game result isn’t the actual result.”
Chung now prefers televised US Major League Baseball to local games because of illegal betting, which has cost the nation’s 20-year-old league a chunk of its fan base, taking income away from the sport’s development and lowering the national team’s odds of international championships.


Not a difficult choice. Is it?


[update]
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