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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Explain how standards of living rise.
Businesses create wealth.
By your argument, all businesses are just businesses that would have existed elsewhere. There is no new money, only money that would have been spent at some new suburban mall (that you would totally be against)
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This business creates wealth for the owners.
Just like a new arena will create more wealth for the owners of the Flames, funded by our taxes. If you honestly believe that the average citizen will be better off, or that business will move to Calgary to have an office in the arena district, then I don't know what to say to you.
This isn't a new business springing up and creating new jobs, it's a very profitable business getting a massive handout to get a new office.
Please. Show me your empirical evidence. Not a statement saying "tax revenues", that's not empirical evidence. That's an assumption.