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If you think that all studies agree with the Ottawa one, we're done here, because you're so very very wrong. So wrong.
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You're mixing arguments. The Ottawa study reports the economic benefits of an NHL team and facility, not anything to do with publicly funding it.
Those economic benefits to a city/area are an absolute certainty.
That fact, and who pays for them are entirely separate things. And all evidence suggests that Edmonton will be left hold at least a half empty bag that used to hold the half billion they dropped in to that project.
How am I am wrong in that, this is what I wrote in the post you responded to above
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What probably none suggest (except the stupid City Shaping propaganda out of Edmonton) is that a new facility stimulates economic development/growth and will broaden/expand the tax base such that it pays back a huge investment, like Edmonton's half billion dollars.
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Somewhere between zero and a half billion - and definitely closer to the zero part - there is hopefully middle ground where rational beings will find equilibrium.