Yup. I disagree with you, therefore my opinions are a joke. Shame on me for failing to bow down before the great Tinordi's obviously superior intellect.
Your
opinion that spending any public money is a waste is fine and valid. Obviously I disagree with it. But when it comes to how much public money should be spent on a project, $0 is, by definition, an extreme. You're certainly within your rights to believe that this extreme is the appropriate amount, but for the love of god, don't sit there and cry because your opinion that stands at an extreme end of the scale is being called for what it is.
And like it or not, your view that any public money being spent is a waste is merely a personal feeling of your own. So if I'm moving the goalposts, it is only to put them back where they were before you moved them yourself.
I will reiterate something I stated earlier in this thread: I consider an arena to be a public good. The Saddledome was publicly funded. It is not at all likely the various levels of government that paid for it recouped their cost. But in my opinion, our city was enhanced considerably as a result of its construction. On that basis, and as an individual tax payer, I would support having a portion of a new facility funded publicly. However, I do also believe that the majority of the cost should be private. And as an individual user of such a facility, I would also support paying something like a ticket surcharge to help cover that cost as well.
Is my opinion more reasonable than yours? That is something I would leave to others to decide.