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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
For people that support public funding for a new arena, what are you waiting for? Get out your chequebooks and send money to Murray Edwards. Just don't drag me and my money into it because you don't want to wait 3 seconds to take a leak.
I bet many of these people are the same who complain when property taxes rise.
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It's typically upper middle class to wealthy earners that are in favor of things like sports stadiums. It seems weird when you'll see the same individuals being completely against public spending for so many other things that benefit low income earners.
The psychology behind it is they feel their taxes continually prop up those less fortunate than them where as a sports stadium is something that they feel they can actually get some value out of for themselves.
They're paying taxes anyways, don't care if their taxes go to things that help lower income citizens (and in many cases actually oppose this), they can afford higher ticket prices to get into said stadium, so of course they're in favor of the rest of us propping up a better sports experience for them.
Just some perspective for those that are confused by seeing typically fiscal conservatives in the city (and on CP) suddenly okay with hundreds of millions being handed to billionaire sports owners for a private venture.