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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
This gets so old. Same recycled argument every time a new facility is brought up anywhere. Do you want professional sports or not? If you don’t like the scam then stop watching and supporting. It’s really simple. You don’t get a professional sports team without a facility and owners and cities both know what they are getting into with these marriages. I get that some taxpayers don’t like it but don’t be hypocritical and keep watching and supporting if it bothers you so much. As a sports fans I’m tired of hearing the whining in sports threads by the hypocrites. Go whine on Reddit or something.
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I don’t disagree it’s a total scam lining the pockets of the ultra wealthy, at the expense of the taxpayer.
But the government does that all the time for a ton of different industries. It’s just less public facing, so people don’t get bent out of shape on it.
Given more money, politicans will always waste it. Usually on million dollar art installations and fancy walking bridges, rather than something useful (roads, schools, paying teachers, libraries, tax reductions). At least with a rink as a hockey fan I get SOMETHING out of it.