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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Really? Murray has been in business for a very long time. He's sitting on his share of a $2 billion asset. This is not the business it was 30 years ago.
Yeah sure it's easy as fans to make financial decisions when it's not our money. Except of course that the Flames ask for taxpayer money to help them out.
Asking the Flames to pay a small portion of the costs for a new arena isn't really a cuts both ways type escenario for me.
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I agree, it's a business that should pay for itself. The arena deals have been a slippery slope for a lot of years now, in a lot of cities. The trouble is that when Katz makes a deal like he did, CSEC feels entitled to ask for what they did. And Calgary feels pressure to keep up. It'd be nice to tell sports teams to shove it, but that takes a lot of fortitude on the part of governments. And none have had it, from any political perspective.