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Originally Posted by dino7c
Flames have an 81M pay roll, they are paying more taxes than anything they are getting back
Joe six pack isn't subsidizing millionaires, and if not in Calgary they will make that money and pay those taxes elsewhere
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That’s how progressive taxation work. The dollars which pay those salaries would be put into other entertainment options and contribute to taxation elsewhere. You might have a case in the NFL where television dwarfs gate but the NHL is still a local business. All businesses and employees pay more in on taxation than they get in subsidies. Otherwise governments couldn’t operate other services.
If all municipalities said no the NHL still exists and the cap is about 20-30million per year lower and each team builds an arena every 30 years. This isn’t a marginal business.
So since the business can clearly exist without the subsidy then all we are doing is subsidizing player salaries.