tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post6298600645595042395..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-74363509261949026422007-09-21T14:23:00.000-05:002007-09-21T14:23:00.000-05:00More specifically, I was commenting on this reports in the Star with regard to Hilbert:<BR/><BR/>"Haverstick Consulting, the tech and business services company led by ex-Conseco chief Stephen Hilbert, is moving from Carmel to Indianapolis," writes the Star's Erika Smith. "In exchange for relocating, the city of Indianapolis offered property tax abatement worth more than $68,000, and IEDC offered Haverstick up to $30,000 in training grants."<BR/><BR/>For the already existing business at the same location:<BR/><BR/> "The state is providing New Sunshine up to $420,000 in tax credits and $92,000 in training grants. The city is providing $126,000 in a property-tax abatement. New Sunshine employs 314 people."Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-71212190321083112172007-09-21T12:05:00.000-05:002007-09-21T12:05:00.000-05:00<I>If you include tax abatement, you include every significant business in the state of Indiana.</I><BR/><BR/>Then why did you make a big deal of it when Stephen Hilbert's newest venture received a property tax abatement?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-28490538180218376472007-09-21T07:53:00.000-05:002007-09-21T07:53:00.000-05:00If you include tax abatement, you include every significant business in the state of Indiana. I was thinking more in terms of direct subsidies from the government.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-92049381395287956212007-09-21T07:50:00.000-05:002007-09-21T07:50:00.000-05:00You're wrong. Cook Group received a ten year property tax abatement for a project in Monroe County that they would have built anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-22571799880280232322007-09-20T23:17:00.000-05:002007-09-20T23:17:00.000-05:00It's Cook by a long shot. Even his investment in the French Lick casino is in the form of a public benefit corporation he created.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-18672583803148768212007-09-20T22:30:00.000-05:002007-09-20T22:30:00.000-05:00I'm guessing Cook.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05878554765398785634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-2474822153719315182007-09-20T21:35:00.000-05:002007-09-20T21:35:00.000-05:00My guess is # 68 William Cook<BR/><BR/><BR/>Simon's take money from the tax payers if not direct in the way of subsidy and since the other is in the Hotel business, I would suspect that he also feeds from the public trough. Am I close or did I blow it completely?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com