I fail to see how the taxpayers have footed most of the bill.
Are you including the RAV line, the sea to sky highway and the convention centre in those costs?
The olympic oval and hillcrest will become public community centres after they're used and would've been built anyways, just not as nice and grand, so we can include a portion of those costs.
Reno's and upgrades to exisiting structures would have happened anyways, they were only sped up, but we can include portions of the costs for those as well.
The only things we are building that will cost taxpayers is the bobsled track and the ski jumps. But even those aren't a complete loss as we will be able to host additional events afterwards to recoup a portion of the costs however minimal.
The operating costs for the games, ie security etc will be more then made up by the operating revenues from the games.
Most games have been money makers in recent years, with the lack of new buildings and the amount of sponsership and tv money already rolling in I think it's a safe to assume our games will not be in the red.