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Originally Posted by nik-
It's crazy. Where do people think provincial and federal tax dollars come from? They don't only take it from non-Calgary residents because the city is chipping in already.
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Why people see it as "free money" is because its already allocated to sport federally, we're paying it whether we get the Olympics or not. If we get the Olympics then we get some of the money. If we don't get the Olympics then the Feds give the money to other sports projects across the country. We lose the money to taxes either way. We're paying either way. In one scenario our local city benefits and in other scenarios we don't see any of that money back.
Free is obviously a misleading term since the money is spent either way but people are getting at the point that some of our federal taxes would go to improving Calgary infrastructure instead of spending it on sport elsewhere in the country.
Nothing crazy here. Just poorly worded arguments on both sides as you'd expect.