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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Studies have shown that the benefits you describe a re virtually zero. You have to remember that you can't compare building an arena to not building anything, you have to compare building an arena to building something else.
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Ok, let's compare the opportunity cost of green space. Or a skateboard park.
The fact is that most things that governments spend tax dollars on are bad investments. If they were good investments, private funds would have taken care of them already.
Tax dollars are typically spent (when they are not wasted), on things that enrich our lives or are needed, but do not generate their own revenues (or enough revenues to sustain themselves).
And to say that the money should be spent on health care and education is an empty argument. Yes, we need those things but does that mean that
nothing else is worth spending money on? Every penny of tax dollars should go to them?