The Great Basketball Swindle.

• Author: Penner, Larry
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

There is even more to "The Great Basketball Swindle" (October) than the use of eminent domain to support developer Bruce Ratner's Brooklyn, New York, Atlantic Yards project, which includes a new stadium for the New Jersey Nets basketball team. None of this is new for taxpayers and real sports fans. Public officials receive pay-for-play campaign donations from team owners, their consultants, and lobbyists in exchange for corporate welfare and support of eminent domain.

Public dollars on the city, state, and federal level are being used as corporate welfare to subsidize a private business. The only real beneficiaries of these expenditures are team owners and their multimillion-dollar players.

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