Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition (At Table S.) Review

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(More customer reviews)I read the 1999-published edition of FIELD OF SCHEMES, not this revised version. I imagine the updated FIELD OF SCHEMES reports on corporate welfare cities have awarded to sports franchises since '99.
How many New Yorkers know state and New York City taxpayers are forking over $1.5 billion to help fund new stadiums for the Mets and Yankees baseball teams? Wacky George Pataki and Rudeness Giuliani, as New York governor and New York City mayor, respectively, thought giving those private enterprises all that state and city revenue was more important than funding hospitals, schools, and infrastructure?
Read FIELD OF SCHEMES. Fight City Hall.

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Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers, forced to pay both higher taxes and higher ticket prices for seats that, thanks to the layers of luxury seating that typify new stadiums, usually offer a worse view of the action.

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