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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Like it or not, you are at an extreme, and like it or not, the suggestion that people might consider options and viewpoints between your extreme and the other extreme of funding everything publicly is not a fallacy.
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On the issue of publicly funding arenas that will be owned and operated by enormously wealthy private interests? If you polled Calgarians, I think you'll find Tinordi's opinion not extreme at all.
Take a look at a
poll of Edmontonians on the issue.
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Only 5% of Edmontonians ‘strongly support’ the City of Edmonton providing taxpayer dollars toward the arena (unchanged from February, 2010). An additional, one-fifth (22%) ‘somewhat supported’ the concept of taxpayer money being used for a new downtown arena.
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And I'd bet Calgarians are even less supportive of public funding.