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Originally Posted by marsplasticeraser
This is what I feel many of the NO voters don't get, or choose to ignore.
The facilities being built or renovated need to be built or renovated anyways.
So Voting No doesn't mean we don't spend that money, it just removes the funding and probably changes the timing for those investments.
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This is what pushed me to the yes side. In the next 10-20 years we will have to pay for a lot of things.
- Building a fieldhouse
- Doing something with McMahon
- Doing something about an arena
- Upkeep on existing olympic facilities
Even if you are a pessimist and say that no affordable housing will get built the items above add up to a lot more than $400 million or so. If we also end up with the housing then that is a big win.
There are surely a lot more benefits that will also come from 3-5ish billion coming into our economy. Will all of that money stay in Calgary/Alberta? of course not but a heck of a lot will and that money gets taxed and respent. It's not 10-1 but it's a lot. We could certainly use the investment right now when our economy and downtown core are taking it on the chin.
I'm against the government spending money that we don't have but when it's going to cost a lot more in the long run it makes sense to get a bunch of the money coming from sources outside of the province.