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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Again, if its generating 100,000,000 for local businesses then it should no longer be something that the government is funding, its in a stable position and its shown relevance to the business community so you put the responsibility for fund raising and the businesses that directly benefit to support it.
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Restating your opinion is not an argument. The point I'm making is that fund raising that relies on an honor system misapplied to amoral entities (businesses) is not necessarily going to work. If it did, the government wouldn't be covering the shortfall in revenues for so many such endeavors.
You seem to think that the funding issues are solvable by simply increasing the effort made to extract donations from private sources. This is analogous to the well-known advice for poor people that they should make more money; it is technically sound but functionally useless. For all you know, they are already extracting the maximum amount of money possible from their donors, meaning that if the government withdrew their money, the whole structure might collapse. We can't be sure that this is the case, but if there is even 1 chance in 100 that it would, it's a bad bet to try to save $400 000 when the downside is costing the local economy $100 000 000.