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Originally Posted by Locke
At the end of the day we all know what the issue is. They want free money and the Mayor is reluctant to give it to them.
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This.^^^^
Everyone can agree that there are at the very least some indirect benefits and incentives to the city and the flames to fund building a new arena. And it's hard to put a dollar value on some indirect benefits like having more quality of life
The part the flames keep pretending doesn't exist is that they will see a direct financial return on their investment, and it's easy to put a dollar value on that and it's not unreasonable for taxpayers to expect a similar return on their portion of the initial investment.