Yankeetorial: New reason for A-Rod-haters to hate A-Rod: He steals from honest taxpayers

That's the news on CBS-NYC: A-Rod stuffs his fat face with more than popcorn. He stuffs it with tax-breaks that should have gone to you: John Q. Met.

The property tax bill on A-Rod's super-luxury, the-rats-even-smell-nice, $6 million penthouse will be a meager, Syracuse-like $1,150. CBS claims that comes to 4-cents a day, though Fred Wilpon must be doing the math.

Yes, Alex is one of the 45,000 supremely rich, gold-pantalooned Manhattan dandies who pig out at the public trough more heavily than any welfare queen ever imagined. He's practically one of the Pruits of South Hampton. It's a scandal! It's an outrage! It's enough of a plot for a Ben Affleck movie -- a new reason for Yankee-haters to do what they love to do most: Hate Yankees, (while complaining about the teachers' union.)

Says the Woodward/Bernsteins of CBS:

A-Rod’s taxes are so low that if he paid the going rate his tax bill would be 50 times higher. He should get such a break when he faces the Red Sox pitching staff.



Great kicker line, eh? ... when he faces the Red Sox pitching staff.

Listen: We long ago became a culture that only debates issues when they touch a celebrity. The U.S. Supreme Court guarantees that we can say anything about Charlie Sheen, as long as we arrest Wikileaks. Someday, surely A-Rod will go to jail for his crimes against humanity. Let's hope he gets a break from the Attica prison staff.