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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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Where do you think they get their money from? Joe six pack pays tax dollars towards arena funding, but more importantly pays their salaries through their tickets, that then also come back as taxes. So Joe Six pack is paying for everything, in a way.
Reducing ticket prices, reducing salaries, and thus reducing the owner take are all within the realm of reality, and they'd still have vastly more money than Joe. It's weird we just accept that some guy who has talent playing hockey is worth more to society than say a doctor saving lives, or even a bus driver. And not just a little more, orders of magnitude more. And then those making far far less are so eager to jump up and defend this vast inequality. Just seems odd to me.
Like, wouldn't you want to pay less to take you and your family to see a hockey game, or have fewer annoying adds, or sponsor names plastered all over? The only consequence being the guy on the ice gets a few million less over their hockey career? And the owners who are vastly more wealthy than you accumulate franchise value at a slightly lower pace? There's nothing to say the model we have now is the only one that would work.