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Originally Posted by Robbob
From my understanding the 250M would be fronted by the Flames owners so it isn't a loan secured by taxpayers. It is a user fee paid by the users paid back to the owners who fronted the money.
Isn't that what people really want? The people that want and use the arena will pay off the ticket tax. If it makes the concert/game/event more expensive then that cost is still being covered by the users.
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It's been my understanding that the city would back the loan because the city gets a better rate and would be owning the arena and the ticket tax goes to the arena owners, not the operators, to repay the construction cost of the arena.
It isn't a good deal for the city to own he arena in the first place, and while a user fee is the least egregious of the Flames funding models, it is a tax that if "supply and demand dictate" people don't want to pay the city of Calgary is otherwise committed to paying it. Either way the tax paying base is on hook for the loan, voluntarily or involuntarily.