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Originally Posted by underGRADFlame
But yet when it comes to an arena people draw a line because it somehow doesn't count towards civic pride, or doesn't serve the "right" tax payers needs. There are a lot of tax payers that used the dome and would use the new arena, be it hockey, lacrosse or concerts, tax payers would benefit from a new arena in the same way a tax payer would benefit from a upgrade library.
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Repeating myself again, but the very simple and obvious reason is the Flames are a private, for profit business and the facility will be restricted access to paying customers, whereas the other two are free to use for anyone. If the average taxpayer benefited, might be worth considering. But it's the wealthy fan that benefits since they can afford the price increases. So it's probably something better suited to PSL's, but people would be even angrier with that for whatever reason.