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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I think you are thinking about this the wrong way. It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with what some Calgarians believe is important to them and the city. Many are Flames fans that would like a new venue, many want the team to be financially competitive with the competition so the young guns era never returns, some want sports facilities that are on par with the other major cities so they can have pride over apologies when entertaining visitors, some like to go to concerts and would rather stay in Calgary for them rather than have to travel to Edmonton for the big acts. There is also many that are more interested in their tax money going to other things and that's fine as I don't think there's every been any situation like this in any city where it's been unanimous or close one way or another. People are always divided over where they believe tax money should go. This is no different.
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I mean I know you're absolutely desperate for this to happen, but this has to be the worst excuse ever given for wanting a new arena. The salary cap exists now, a new arena doesn't give them some cheat code where they can circumvent the cap. The arena isn't making them anymore financially competitive then right now, they can spend to the cap now and they'll still be able to spend to the cap later when the arena opens. It makes the owners richer since there will be more luxury boxes and fewer seats than the Dome so they can charge more per ticket, but that doesn't translate to more cap space.