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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
If the cities vision for Calgary includes an arena and a full time major league tenant occupying that building, and would pursue such a venture and try to attract another team here if the Flames didn't exist, then they have stake in this project and should be paying for some.
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They have offered to pay for some, a significant some at that... unless what you're doing is towing the CSEC party line that they (CSEC) should be exempt from the same capital costs and taxes that every other business in the city pays.
Sorry, I don't accept CSEC ludicrous position that *gasp* paying taxes means they're paying for more then everything. The Flames dress it up in language of "partnership" but they have a seriously disturbing vision of partnership where any money they put in counts as investment but the only thing that counts as investment for anyone else is what they lose.