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That's part of the overall problem .. Isn't it.??The Iconoclast said:Having lived on both sides of the border as well as in multiple states I can call BS on the tax issue. The whole "personal income tax" thing is a scam. I thought it was going to be beneficial when I moved to Florida until I saw how they tax the hell out of you in other ways. I paid four times what I do in property tax in Florida as to what I do in Arizona. There are more hidden taxes and fees for anything you do in Florida than anywhere I've ever been. You get nickle and dimed to death in Florida because everything is purchase oriented so they can screw the snowbirds and tourists. It's not much different in Arizona either, where they hit for you do. Personally, I made more money and was taxed less living in Alberta than anywhere else I've been. I took a pretty substantial hit to chase the sunshine and a little white ball.
As for the arena, if you're being over-paid to play, who cares where you play? For an extra million a season most of these guys would play in your backyard rink and change in the garage. They are modern day mercaneries and will go where the green is for the most part, conditions be damned.
When posters suggest that cost of living is an issue and it cost far more to live in Toronto then Calgary, or NY verses Arizona, yet its fair to have all players salaries unilaterally effected by Total league Revenue and that a HARD CAP equal in all markets is fair to players .. What about the players paying 4 times the property tax as you say, or the cost of a house is 3 times if not more to live in one city verses the other .. This is all complicated by the fact that a team owns your rights from 18-30 and the player has no say or choice to move away from Florida as you did and head to Arizona .. So even if he gets the same 1 mil in each city .. His money stretches farther and his quality of life is better for his family in different markets ..
Parity on the ice does not equal parity off the ice ..
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