Comments on Advance Indiana™: Indiana's $3 Billion Stimulus: How Will It Be Spent?

Doesn't the gas tax cover roads?

2009-01-20T13:00:00.000-05:00

Doesn't the gas tax cover roads?

AI, once again you are wrong...I pay my own health...

2009-01-19T22:51:00.000-05:00

AI, once again you are wrong...I pay my own health insurance on a quarterly basis and it is over $500 a month and it is a pretty basic policy......

allocating more money for healthcare only drives u...

2009-01-19T21:43:00.000-05:00

allocating more money for healthcare only drives up the cost of healthcare - as the institutions see there are more dollars available, they will do there level best to suck up every last nickel of that they can by raising the fees across the board. Then the working class who pays their way ultimately pay more. And the poor still get theirs paid for. Nothing gained, except the medical execs get richer.

Just like the $4.5 Million for local crime prevent...

2009-01-19T12:59:00.000-05:00

Just like the $4.5 Million for local crime prevention that went into the hands outstretched from the shakedown artists, look for argument in terms of megabucks on state distribution. Speaking of artists, don't let the Arts crowd get wind of this or the outpouring from the gushing CIB might be in jeapordy. Just what we need: more wiggling Ann dancing signs and tire retread sculptures while foreclosures run rampant and jobs are scarce.
I thought the toll road contract was to more than offset the infrastructure of Indiana road repairs.

The question is not IF there will be an interdicti...

2009-01-19T12:50:00.000-05:00

The question is not IF there will be an interdiction of Obama’s Presidency by the Supreme Court, the questions are WHEN and HOW that interdiction will transpire — that is, if the USA is to continue as the Constitutional Republic that now exists.

Well, Art (I'm too much of a coward to tell you wh...

2009-01-19T10:54:00.000-05:00

Well, Art (I'm too much of a coward to tell you who I really am), you obviously don't pay for your own health insurance like some of us. Yeah, let's just send it to other states since we're already getting much less back from Washington than what we send to it each year. That makes a lot of sense.

AI. I find your characteriztion of Medicaid to be...

2009-01-19T10:46:00.000-05:00

AI. I find your characteriztion of Medicaid to be insulting. Since Mitch has spent a year telling us what good shape the economy in Indiana is, I think we should refuse the money and send it to states that are having difficulty.

Of course you don't have Medicare. That's the gove...

2009-01-19T10:42:00.000-05:00

Of course you don't have Medicare. That's the government plan for senior citizens. Medicaid is a Cadillac plan for those low-income persons who qualify for it (lots of single parent moms living in public housing). Many self-employed people have to go without medical care because the insurance costs for the self-employed are prohibitively expensive and they can't afford the bills providers charge them because they aren't covered by a health insurance plan. The problem with public education is not a lack of spending. We spend extraordinary amounts per pupil on education already and yet the quality of that education continues to decline. If spending made a difference, the Chicago Public School system would be the best in the county. Instead, it's one of the worst. I like a good transporation system too, but there's no spending offered to build a world class public transporation system. Just more spending to consume more farmland and create more congested highways.

What's in it for us? I don't have Medicare or kids...

2009-01-19T10:28:00.000-05:00

What's in it for us? I don't have Medicare or kids (I do use the roads) but I would prefer to live in a place where the sick and elderly are cared for, our roads are maintained and the children are educated then a place where they are not. But that's just me.
I would also like a tax credit, but I'd rather see Indiana spend some money on basic things that it desperately needs. I'm not convinced every dollar will be spent wisely, but any money spent on any social program or public works project should have a positive effect, especially now.

The $3 billion is tax money taken away from us. T...

2009-01-19T08:11:00.000-05:00

The $3 billion is tax money taken away from us. The best use would be a one-time tax credit for Hoosiers.

Spending more money on roads and universities will lead to deeper financial ruin, like the kind we're seeing from having spent billions on downtown development - hotels, sports facilities, Circle Center Mall.

Downtown is deadern a doornail - look at the old MSA site. Building big things does not create jobs in the long run, if building the Colts a new stadium really did create jobs - we should build them another one, and another, and another.