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November 17, 2008
Why aren’t the Yankees making cuts, too?
amNewYork, Letters to the Editor
Supporters of public funding of local professional sports venues spew the same blah-blah-blah to justify the expense, but when the city is headed towards fiscal straights, pro-sports subsidies never seem to get cut:
I’ve got two questions for the Emperor of City Hall: 1. If “all” of NYC must take the pain of our government’s failures, what “sacrifices” are George Steinbrenner and the Yankees making? 2. If Bloomberg is telling the truth that stadiums are so profitable, why do the Yankees need hundreds of millions of our tax dollars? This has got to be the dumbest lie ever. And, if we taxpayers are paying for half of the new Yankee Stadium, why aren’t we getting half the eventual profits in return? Mike Antoinette better watch his head, because it seems like he’s losing it!
— Tanya O’Langan, Manhattan
Posted by lumi at November 17, 2008 5:19 AM