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Old 09-20-2017, 10:49 AM   #1680
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Originally Posted by Frequitude View Post
To those who don't believe that a ticket tax is mostly a Flames owner contribution:

If the Flames borrowed $555M from RBC at the proper market interest rate and then built the arena entirely from that money, who, in your opinion, "funded" the arena?
a) The Flames
b) RBC
c) Users (i.e. ticket buyers)
So your question is essentially "If the Flames funded their arena in a completely different way than they've proposed, and where they pay for the whole of it by borrowing the money, who would be funding the arena?"
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