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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 963166" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Good point but all Olympic "Celebrations" are nothing more than a pick pocket operation on the taxpayer. It's pure wealth re-distribution into the hands of local and regional business and gov't functions and their functionaries. Living in a city that had an Olympic "Celebration", the message is always how much the city and region benefits and in some respects that's true but it's by no means from purely market actions. And the allocation of resources afterwards may or may not always work in the "Utopianism" as once proclaimed. Atlanta built the Georgia Dome leading into the Olympics as a part of the greater World Congress Center complex and here we are 20 years later and the talk is the Dome is outdated, old, etc. and that the Falcons need for the taxpayers to foot the bill for a new stadium. So the taxpayers are expected to foot a billion dollar pricetag for what equates to 8 Sundays per year not counting pre-season and maybe a post season game and of course the Monster Truck/Motorcross show? </p><p></p><p>Tell me again "conservatives" about market forces and best allocation of resources. Resources that are extracted at the point of a gun for the benefit of someone else. And how is this not socialism?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 963166, member: 2189"] Good point but all Olympic "Celebrations" are nothing more than a pick pocket operation on the taxpayer. It's pure wealth re-distribution into the hands of local and regional business and gov't functions and their functionaries. Living in a city that had an Olympic "Celebration", the message is always how much the city and region benefits and in some respects that's true but it's by no means from purely market actions. And the allocation of resources afterwards may or may not always work in the "Utopianism" as once proclaimed. Atlanta built the Georgia Dome leading into the Olympics as a part of the greater World Congress Center complex and here we are 20 years later and the talk is the Dome is outdated, old, etc. and that the Falcons need for the taxpayers to foot the bill for a new stadium. So the taxpayers are expected to foot a billion dollar pricetag for what equates to 8 Sundays per year not counting pre-season and maybe a post season game and of course the Monster Truck/Motorcross show? Tell me again "conservatives" about market forces and best allocation of resources. Resources that are extracted at the point of a gun for the benefit of someone else. And how is this not socialism? [/QUOTE]
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