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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
I'm a little astonished at the hardliners who are daring the team to move by not supporting the use of public funds in any way, but at the same time are morally outraged that the team would threaten to move. Pick one.
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I think it has something to do with the fact that they are bringing it up so early in the game. It's been two years since they made their proposal, which in the grand scheme of arenas, is very short.
They jumped a few chapters in the field of schemes playbook.
But it's also hard for them to try and tug at the emotional angle (the fans, the sick kids, the charity) and talk about how integral the team is to the city, and then threaten to leave it all behind. It's kind of a slap in the face.
If they want to make a business case, then we, as a city, will make a business case too. We can leave emotion out of it... unfortunately the business case for stadium subsidies has been disproved so many times that it's amazing people still argue it.