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Old 09-13-2017, 08:10 AM   #850
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Originally Posted by MattyC View Post
Yeah it does, but not 50,000.

I'm not saying we'll get Amazon. The poster equated funding the arena with subsidizing Amazon's HQ. What I am saying is that the public benefit of a sports team does not even come close to touching the long term influx of 50,000 jobs into a city. There is no dance of statistics that can happen to make them appear close. That doesn't mean there is zero public benefit from a sports team.
Equating the 50,000 jobs Amazon is talking about to ushers and ticket takers is quite the dance on its own
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