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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
But some money does get spent on things other than health care. And infrastructure is one of them.
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Again, we all know that. But that’s not a defence of this particular deal and project at this particular time.
Trying to defend the deal with vague generalizations everybody understands like “money gets spent on infrastructure” or “public money does go to infrastructure projects” does not seem any better than the people you claim would be against this if
any public money went to it.
I’m not against public money. I’m not against arenas. It is just not encouraging that every defence of this is either a lie (no taxpayer money, cash deal! this money had to go to this!) or an incredibly vague retelling of surface-level city economics (money is spent on infrastructure!). Why bother?