All Posts Tagged With: "stadium subsidies"
Politicians Smother Cities
I like my hometown, but I must admit that New York has problems: high taxes, noise, traffic. Forbes magazine ranks my city the 16th most miserable in America. Ouch! Of course, that makes me wonder: What’s America’s most miserable city? Cleveland, says Forbes. People call it “the Mistake by the Lake.” Cleveland, once America’s sixth-largest [...]
29Jun2010 | John Stossel | 6 comments | ContinuedYo, Brooklyn! Get Real About Politics and Sports
Brooklyn, New York, needs a reality check on sports—whether it comes to the borough’s past with baseball’s Dodgers, or its possible future with basketball’s Nets. Even though the Dodgers left for Los Angeles almost a half-century ago, for many that move still hangs like a dark cloud over Brooklyn. Some people trace the borough’s economic [...]
1Feb2005 | Raymond J. Keating | 1 comment | ContinuedThe NFL Oilers: A Case Study in Corporate Welfare
After more than three-and-a-half decades in the city of Houston, the National Football League’s Oilers kicked off this past season in Tennessee. The Tennessee Oilers are the result of a traumatic corporate welfare struggle in Houston, one that has left all but dead the political will to fight government handouts to million-dollar team owners and [...]
1Apr1998 | Raymond J. Keating | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Economic Woes of Pro Sports: Greed or Government?
Mr. Keating is chief economist with the Washington, D.C.-based Small Business Survival Foundation. Beyond labor strife, two issues particularly annoy pro sports fans today—exorbitant player salaries and city-hopping by teams. Player salaries that seem wildly out of kilter have been bothersome for some time. For example, the average Major League Baseball player reportedly earned $1.2 [...]
1Jan1997 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedSports Welfare
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). When America was founded there was much debate over the proper role of government. Today that debate continues every time someone proposes [...]
1Jun1996 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | Continued-
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