Comments on Advance Indiana™: Star's "Tiff Over TIFs" Story Born On The Blogs

Patch the law if necessary, but perform the basics...

2010-10-11T04:33:25.193-05:00

Patch the law if necessary, but perform the basics of governnment first: public safety, streets, sewers, schools, & libraries.

Government (of any level) in America was not created as a revenue stream for business development. Reasonable taxation, employment, and regulatory policies- Yes. Outright degradation of our infrastructure for the nebulous hope of greater tax revenues in the future- No.

We leave a "hole in the ground" for awhile.

Me too, Citizen Kane. Of course, I was raised in ...

2010-10-11T00:40:23.388-05:00

Me too, Citizen Kane. Of course, I was raised in a home where my parents never borrowed a penny from anyone, and were totally against the practice of usury.

"An alternative use of the excess funds--payi...

2010-10-10T19:26:15.303-05:00

"An alternative use of the excess funds--paying down the existing debt--is not even broached in the story."

And it never will be.

As for state law preventing it - if they wanted to transfer money to the library or bus system, they would find a way - just as they found a way to transfer money to the Pacers from the TIF.

Frankly, I don't want them to shift the funds; I want them to pay off the debt and extinguish all TIFs and fund the government and encourage development by providing reasonably low taxes for everyone and stop picking winners and losers.

State law might restrict it, but last I checked, l...

2010-10-10T10:13:37.995-05:00

State law might restrict it, but last I checked, laws can be amended. If we went to the state house and said "Hey, we'd like to use this money to support X, Y and Z instead", I bet the state house would approve.