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Originally Posted by SebC
If the Flames are to get public funding, I want the public money to go to things that are public. Subsidizing the leisure of the wealthy doesn't sit well, even if attracting them pays for itself.
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And given the price of big-name concerts these days, you can't even justify the musical acts a new arena would draw as a bone to throw to the plebs. It would be more egalitarian (and cost-effective) to subsidize the salaries of the musicians in the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.