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Originally Posted by Leondros
There was a 56 page report commissioned and conducted by one of the big 4 firms and did an extensive cost-benefit analysis. The voters were stupid...
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That picture shows the voters were smart.
Prior to cost overruns the best the Olympics were going to do was spend tax dollars on infrastructure. We can do that without the Olympics. It also assumes that the infrastructure constructed is 100% useful and the dbm for said infrastructure isn’t inflated by Olympic requirements.
I mean the best case scenario based on that report was spending more tax dollars on infrastructure we didn’t 100% need. And keep in mind that the report was done with a set of assumptions being provided to the big 4 company that was likely to show this. These types of reports are rarely done without the answer knowing in advance. So the best they could do was break even.
This also assumes that you believe that Federal dollars and provincial dollars not spent in Calgary are just lost and we should line up at the pork trough because others do.
No the voters weren’t stupid, they had a different assessment of the same information as you did.