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Originally Posted by Bingo
I've said in my office for years now that we should all be able to log into a city of calgary website and spend our X units of tax dollars on various projects.
Take infrastructure and essentials out of it and then leave it to a true plebiscite on every other dollar spent, including an option for tax reduction.
It would end the bickering. If the 99.5% of tax payers picked other options the Flames would get nothing, and maybe the Peace Bridge wouldn't get built.
If however 44% allocated money to a new building then people couldn't bitch about it.
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It would be great except that most people are dumber than a bag of hammers. The shell game would just be moved to coming up with creative ways of classifying essential services.
Would I support any type of public funding for a new arena? Most likely no but, would I support public funds for an arena, convention centre, new central library, light rail/commuter rail transportation hub? Probably would. Hopefully the Flames are working on something a little more creative.