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Originally Posted by jayswin
For many it's an issue of how a society operates, not necessarily the amount of loonies added to their taxes each year. You have a country where mental illness treatment is woefully under funded, schools are overcrowded and man basic societal foundations are cracking.
We also have a very uncertain future economic forecast in western world. These are things that well off people likely don't notice in their day to day, but for many the idea that a single penny would go into the pockets of billionaires wanting a new arena to make more revenue for themselves is downright appalling and irresponsible.
Your semantics over whether it's current tax dollars being shuffled around or new tax dollars being added is inconsequential to the fundamental and very valid belief that our tax dollars need to take care of society before they help billionaires make money.
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That's all fair enough. But I don't think it's semantics to differentiate the arguments of (a) not wanting any public money to go into an arena, (b) saying there are priorities (which suggests that if there was simply a lot more revenue and other items were better funded that the position would be different) and (c) simply saying that one's personal taxes would be negatively impacted. Those are three different arguments and conflating them is not helpful either.