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April 27, 2010
The Future of Arts Funding
WNYC Radio
Atlantic Yards, poster child for colossal wastes of taxpayer money, makes a cameo appearance in today's Soundcheck Smackdown over public funding of the Arts, around the 28-minute mark.
Joel Meyer: "Tom writes, 'as an arts lover, as long as governments continue to spend my tax money on sports stadia, I welcome the help for the arts.'"
Nick Gillespie: "That's a strong argument against funding for sports stadiums. New York, the Atlantic Yards project, currently undergoing a destruction of a thriving neighborhood in Brooklyn."
John Schaefer: "That's a whole 'nother Smackdown."
Nick Gillespie: "Absolutely, it's all of a piece, it's all corporate welfare."
Posted by eric at April 27, 2010 10:37 PM