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Originally Posted by FiveSeven
How ####ing overplayed is this who pays for what.
Nobody has a real say where our money goes, governments waste copious amounts of money on dumb, useless crap anyway.
WE GET AN ARENA. LFG! Getting upset about things out of your control is so stupid. Just focus on the fact that we finally *HOPEFULLY* get a sweet new barn.
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That kind of how I feel as well. If the money doesn't get spent on this, it will get spent on something else, probably equally as frivolous (Olympic bids, folk festivals, and so on). Some of the infrastructure improvements and the eventual demolition of the Dome are going to happen eventually anyway. Money for social programs and the likes has already been budgeted for and it won't be going into that pot. You're also unlikely to see a rebate in taxes or anything like that. If a new arena doesn't get built out of this and the Flames leave town, the City and province are still going to spend district improvements and facilities, only they will be doing it without the Flames as an anchor tenant.
You might as well see something nice and long lasting out of it. If the fear is that spending on this project will take away hospitals and homeless shelters, I doubt that is the case. If it is just the idea of multi-millionaires benefiting from it, then welcome to the world I guess.