Calvert Institute Publications

Corporate Welfare, City Management
Editorial Board
As the victors of the Great Stadium Debate of ’96 now find that the whopping $200 million set aside for a new Baltimore bowl will not even buy one they find attractive, advocates of small government must surely be suppressing a smile.

Public Funds into Private Pockets: How Corporate Welfare Offends the Constitution
Dale F. Rubin, J.D.
How can such public expenditures be justified? If you ask a legislator or petition the court for an explanation, the answer will be the same: The expenditures are legal because they are expended for a "public purpose."

Subsidies and Stadiums: Maryland’s Moment of Truth
Michael I. Krauss, J.D.
Maryland’s so-far successful attempt to attract Art Modell’s Cleveland-based NFL franchise to Baltimore is a spectacular example of corporate welfare, regardless of Modell’s February 21 consent to contribute $24 million himself. The deal still involves involves a 30-year, no-rent lease on an estimated $200 million stadium to be built almost entirely at state expense, and near 100 percent of revenues from concessions, parking, etc.