This is still my favorite deke of them all.
As usual, no actual response to what I said; just pictures of multiple year old posts cherry picked out of the context of their original discussions.
There is no "deke" from that statement made 2 years ago. It's not like Toronto's tax situation has changed all that much, so your suggestion doesn't really fit. There are two true statements here, that you are misrepresenting as a contradiction when they are not:
1. As said in the post 2 years ago, there is no "multi-million dollar per year discount" tax advantage. That does not exist, and the belief it does is usually the result of inaccurate contract valuation methodology.
2. Taxes do impact the contracts that are signed; just not primarily in the way people think. While teams may be able to occasionally leverage minor savings, things like signing bonuses are often used to help counter the higher taxes, so that the differences in resulting pay
don't approach "multi-millions of dollars per year".
There are many things I was correct about in that post, and the main thing I was wrong about in that post was Point being willing to sign a bridge. Tampa needed that and did a good job there. All this said, the idea behind your attempt is quite concerning - the idea that if somebody's position has evolved over 2 years, there is something wrong. Quite the contrary; I hope everybody has attempted to improve their knowledge and understanding of things over 2 years, and that they would be open to improving their position with new information.