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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
There almost nothing more disengenuine than complaining about your property taxes increasing in the same thread where you are advocating for the city to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a luxury entertainment venue than you'll then spend even more money than you already do to use.
Don't pretend you care about money or getting value for your dollar. Nobody who does could possibly mention it in the same breath as "we need to replace our useable arena with one that holds less people, charges them more, and costs hundreds of millions of dollars of taxypayer money."
Nobody.
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The problem with your argument is that The City is going to be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a new arena anyways, and as a tax payer I'd prefer they did that with the Flames picking up a good chunk of that while continuing to add the benefits to the city beycurrently do. I also want a new arena not to be owned and run by the City which is what will happen if the Flames were to leave. Those situations turn into real problems for cities that go that route.
The Saddledome is barely useable. It essentially can only be used for sporting events and the odd concert without a large stage setup: it won't even be able to do that within 5-10 years. We are one major snowstorm away from potentially not having an arena here. It's that bad.