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Originally Posted by Fire
Saying there are other sources of tax dollar waste doesn't excuse the waste of tax dollars supporting elite amateur athletes to boost our national ego for a couple of weeks every two years.
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Maybe the money actually goes to helping athletes continue to stay "elite" for each and every event year round? This money can go into everything from training facilities to coaching, not simply into the athletes pockets. Its not like Canada is a developing nation where we have no money to allocate. If we can put tax dollars into half the programs we do, a couple bucks here or there makes absolutely no difference to the average taxpayer and saying otherwise is a complete overstatement.