Field of schemes

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"Are you a sports fan distraught over your home team's move to another city? Or someone whose city has just lured a team to your home turf with a brand new stadium? Or maybe you don't follow sports, but as a taxpayer are outraged over cutbacks in school funding and other services."--BOOK JACKET. "Forget about the false tales of "welfare queens" who supposedly rode around in Cadillacs. Field of Schemes introduces you to some real welfare kings."--BOOK JACKET. "A used-car salesman turned baseball owner promises to pay for a new stadium out of his own pocket, if the state government just agrees to move a highway to clear the land. Several backroom deals later, the state is raising a quarter-billion dollars towards the stadium costs - and the team owner is getting his stadium scot-free."--BOOK JACKET. "The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft wants to buy a football team, but only if the state will build him a new stadium first. So he pays the $4 million cost of a referendum - even as his camp spends millions more in advertising to make sure he wins. In exchange, he gets at least $300 million in public money to build his team's new home."--Jacket.

subjects: Finance,  Stadiums,  Sports and state,  Sports facilities,  Finance & Accounting,  POLITICS & GOVERNMENT,  Politics / Current Events,  Business & Economics,  Politics/International Relations,  General,  Public Affairs & Administration,  Political Science / General,  Stades,  Équipements sportifs,  Sports,  Politique gouvernementale,  Finances

Places: United States