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Originally Posted by getbak
There are just under 500,000 households in Calgary. If each one paid $20 per year for 30 years, that's $300 million. That would pay for half the cost of the new arena.
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A simplistic way of looking at it, and for me, it is still way too much. I don't want the 400,000 lowest value households in Calgary paying anywhere near $20 for this, nor do I want to pay $20+ as a fortunate member of the top 20%.
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Originally Posted by Travis Munroe
I am sure there are all sorts of issues with this but what if the city used a cap system based on funding. If you want 50% tax payers money, tickets are capped at a league average. If you want 25%, tickets can go 15% higher than league average, etc.
Basically if you do not want to run as all private business does by funding your own projects and want city help, then you must give back to the city in the form of not pricing even more of the city out.
Go as far as giving the city 1,000 seats in the nose bleeds which are dispersed to those that would otherwise be priced out.
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I wouldn't be opposed to ideas like this, but I'd much rather the Flames just build it themselves, charge as much as they can, and contribute to society through income and property taxes, just like every other for-profit business.