Nassau County, Long Island Voters Reject Proposal to Fix Coliseum (Islanders Owner 'Heartbroken")

New York Times ^ | 08/02/2011 | Dave Caldwell

[buccaneer81]

The NHL can afford to rebuild the stadium. The get more than enough income from the TV-Networks who get their share from the advertisers during NHL games.

You're not very familiar with the NHL's finances.

This is not the NFL.

[NativeNewYorker]

Don’t know if they can veto it.

[Wuli]

“You’re not very familiar with the NHL’s finances. This is not the NFL.”

It doesn’t matter. The NHL league and the NHL teams are “private enterprises”.

If they cannot afford, on their own, a capital plan in their business model, then they are not an economically viable enterprise to begin with.

That is their own responsibility, not the responsibility of government; not the responsibility of tax-payers.

Money earned through economically viable private enterprises should not be sucked out of the income from those enterprises - legally stolen with taxes by government, to make viable that which is not.

The money NOT spent on this fools errand is better spent WHERE EVER it lands by the free choice of individuals and businesses.

[buccaneer81]

Show me where in my post I supported any use of taxpayer money to support the Islanders, the coliseum or the league.

[Wuli]

“Show me where in my post I supported any use of taxpayer money to support the Islanders, the coliseum or the league.”

I never said nor claimed in any way that you did say those things.

I did however reiterate the many reasons that your belief that I lacked an understanding of the economic status of the NHL was irrelevant to the central question. It - the financial status of the NHL - does not matter.