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Originally Posted by RM14
Calgary should greatly benefit largely from community investments that would not have otherwise happened without the Olympics. If you are protecting Canadian taxpayers go for it. I don't mind sucking money from Federal and Provincial budgets for local benefit to Calgarians.
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Since I pay provincial and federal taxes, and worry about the long-term fiscal health of those levels of government much more than I worry about the city, that isn't a selling point to me.
Governments at every level are borrowing massively in the desperate hopes that a magical turnaround will balance the books in the future. I prefer not to leave the long-term viability of public health care, education, and pensions up to such wishful thinking. We don't have the money for this stuff. We just don't. And the public in places like Sweden and Austria have figured that out.