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Originally Posted by kipperfan
You're asking the wrong guy, I'd prefer all Calgarians who choose to move out to new suburbs to have a 5-10 year supplement on their property taxes to pay for the additional infastructure. With that said, infastructure (including roads, schools and hospitals) are all primary needs of our citizens - hockey and footballs stadiums will never be even close, sorry.
I guess we could. See, personally I think ever comparing education and health spending to 'new stadium for billionaire' funding is the first sign someone has no idea what their talking about - but yes please continue making these amazingly deep points.
What a ######ed statement. There are so many things this city (and province) need with regards to important infastructure so maybe when every one of those important things are checked off the list (see: never) we can talk about funding the billionaries again.
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We're not funding billionaires though. We're adding to our infrastructure to improve the quality of life of our citizens. It's the same as funding a park or improvements to the river walk downtown.
I am also not for 100% funding of the stadium. That would be silly and yes, it would be funding billionaires. I'm all for putting a portion of that money towards a portion of the funding however.
Think of it this way. Would 8th ave be such a vibrant area in Calgary if there wasn't any public money spent on improvements done there in the 90s? Same as 7th ave. Aren't businesses around that area benefiting from the public $ being pumped into that area? How is funding a portion of a stadium district any different?