Comments on Advance Indiana™: CIRTA To Cut Bus Schedule From Hamilton County To Downtown Due To Low Ridership

This is another story of pay-to-play politics: Co...

2014-08-24T17:44:10.989-05:00

This is another story of pay-to-play politics:

Construction industry pays elected officials in forms of "campaign donations" or "trips" etc. Elected officials decide that TAX money must be spent on the projects: unwanted Cricket field, despised bike lanes, Regional Operations Center, Public Safety Building, mass transit trains and buses. The decision is contrary to need, common sense, and community desire. The elected officials then raise taxes and/or appropriate tax funds for the projects.

Pay-to-play developers win. Elected official win. TaxPAYERS PAY!!!

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."

Let me get this right: There are not enough users...

2014-08-24T17:27:55.361-05:00

Let me get this right:

There are not enough users to pay for a service because people don't want it to ride from the county with the highest per-capita income in Indiana to and from Indianapolis during a set time schedule, so some TAX AND SPEND liberals think that since not enough people want to use it, EVERYBODY should pay to have a service that isn't used.

That is just so convoluted and WRONG!

Bottom line, let the market determine the need. There is no market for a mass transit to and from Hamilton County, so we should NOT tax nor put any public money into it at all.

At 100 riders using it five days a week for 50 wee...

2014-08-24T09:35:59.035-05:00

At 100 riders using it five days a week for 50 week per year that is a $33 a day government subsidy. This definitely shows that there is no demand for mass transit in Hamilton County.

From this post regarding mass transit schemes &...

2014-08-24T08:42:33.521-05:00

From this post regarding mass transit schemes & going back a few topics, to include city councilors promoting civil unrest & further misadventures in overpriced public sector, overdevelopment (new courthouse); government is out of control.

Within recent memory, republicans once supported fiscal responsibility & reducing the size of government; to its Constitutionally limited, purposeful frame. Where are those "republicans," who fanned us with their resumes, touting leadership & fiscal sanity?

More government & tax is the problem- not the answer.