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Originally Posted by jayswin
The job creation angle is always weird to me. We're a huge city, an arena creates what a couple to a few dozens jobs? Not nothing, but statistically for a city of 1.3 million isn't that practically nothing?
Which again, those jobs would be great, however these dozens of jobs are always brought forth in arena debates as a reason to fork over hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
If people throwing out this line really cared about efficient job creation isn't there many other ways we could spend hundreds of millions to create jobs?
Hell, we could literally just pay dozens of people to do nothing every year and still come out better than the arena job creation route. This job creation stuff always comes off quite disingenuous from those who likely just want a new arena.
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I'm also miffed as the Arena kicked out the small businesses so they could put in their own kiosks. My friend owned the mini donut and lemonade stands, and now it's their own "'Mac Shack". Thus putting less into local business than before.