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Originally Posted by HOWITZER
Oh I know that the team will want to impose a ticket tax. What I'm saying is that as a taxpayer I'd be willing to put up cash to get the building built so that people who can't afford season tickets at higher rates can enjoy Flames games and other events without a ticket tax.
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You do know chances are ticket prices will go up with a new arena right? Ticket tax or not, look to our brothers north of us, our ticket prices are about to go up.
We, the taxpayers, have the unique opportunity to fund a stadium that will have less seats (but more boxes) reducing supply and drastically increasing prices. So after paying for a new stadium fewer people will get to go and those that do will be paying more.
There have been no shortage of studies presented in this thread that show that there is no economic benefit to a city for financing a stadium. There have been other articles and numbers presented showing why it's unlikely for the Flames to move new stadium or not. Yet we continue to have people falling for this ####. The Flames organization has done a great job of getting people on board without the facts.