Comments on Advance Indiana™: Who's Mayor? Ballard Or Vaughn?

Remember those idiots like Jennifer Wagner and the...

2013-08-06T07:43:57.225-05:00

Remember those idiots like Jennifer Wagner and the other tax-and-spend libs who say "you can't be a suburb of nothing?"

Detroit and others are proof that the new model of an American "city" is a metro area. With abundant highways, a metro area doesn't need a city core.

Anchor cities and downtowns are obsolete or greatly reduced in importance in metro areas.

"Ballard told a State House committee today t...

2013-08-06T05:17:40.656-05:00

"Ballard told a State House committee today that Indianapolis is in danger of becoming another Detroit if his multi-billion dollar metropolitan mass transit (tax and spend) plan isn't adopted."

That is very interesting, especially since Detroit does NOT have rail and it's metropolitan area is booming!!! -Wonder if it is because the gang members, criminals, or thugs have to take the bus to go far outside the danger zone to commit crimes?

The Detroit suburbs are safe...and maybe it is because there is no tax and spend mass transit system to export the crime!!!

By the way, here is a favorite read of mine on just how Indianapolis is becoming South Detroit...

http://www.whoisakindele.info/2007/10/indianapolis-101-conservatives-must.html

By their own admission, the $23 million subsidy of...

2013-08-05T22:17:54.311-05:00

By their own admission, the $23 million subsidy of the Market Square Development will net an additional $500,000 a year (which as you note will go into a TIF district, not the general fund.) That means it will take 46 years to recoup our investment.