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Originally Posted by Tacoman
It's used by far more people than most things that our tax dollars go to.
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So are Cineplexes but I don't think the city ought to be giving them hundreds of millions of dollars to build luxury movie houses. Look I don't have an inherent objection to building an arena... I have an inherent objection to spending 250,000,000 taxpayers dollars so that the Flames (a private for profit business) can make more money none of which will come back to us, the owners of the facility that makes that extra money possible. Show me a deal that sees the taxpayers get some financial upside (or have a true public use utility of equivalent value) and I'll support it.
The Flames are not a public good or service so why should they get public money... because the Oilers did? Sorry I'm not interested in seeing the public spend so much money so the Murray Edwards-Smith can keep up with Darryl Katz-Jones.