Yeah, why would people complain about something that gives another team an advantage. Being able to sign players for 10-15% cheaper due to taxes surely to god isn't an advantage, so why worry about it. Jeebus.
The straw-man argument about weather, location, and other variables is ridiculous as well. The NHL con't control the location or weather of cities for example, but they CAN control the cap of each team rather easily. The NHL should control the reasonable variables that can be controlled. Doing a tax-adjusted cap would be exceptionally easy, and would take a few accountants at most to accomplish. So for less than a million bucks, the NHL could solve this problem. Why wouldn't they do it? What is the argument against it?