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Originally Posted by GioforPM
From the link:
The survey does show the vast majority, between 68 and 73 per cent of respondents, are OK with the city providing either land, cash, a loan or some other sort of financial arrangement for the new facility.
The one caveat: it cannot increase taxes. Once tax increases are mentioned, support for the arrangement craters to 24 per cent.
Support is only lukewarm for providing an interest-free loan (41 per cent) and the city providing a significant financial contribution based on the economic benefit of a new arena (44 per cent).
The 44% figure is higher than I would have predicted. I wonder if CRL was even mentioned in the survey.
On the taxes - I suspect if you put "tax increases" in the abstract on any survey question about any topic, you will get a huge drop in support. But what if the average tax increase was actually calculated and inserted? I bet a lot of "no taxes" people would probably be OK with a tiny increase. What if their taxes go up $20? Is that the hill to die on?
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Well its like what security people call a "salami attack". It adds up eventually, if the Flames are asking for 400 million, that's 400 million pulled out of the local economy that would be spent elsewhere or maybe not spent at all.