Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ball State Study Finds TIFs Useless As Economic Development Tool

This is the anti-Robin Hood approach. Steal from t...

2015-02-16T10:09:18.395-05:00

This is the anti-Robin Hood approach. Steal from the poor and give to the rich. Our sleeping tax payers vote for change without checking their voting records, vote for people that were worse than before. AND, vote out the ones who were trying to fix the problems. When will the people start following the issues and stop listening to lies on talk radio programs!

Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul and they are both...

2015-02-11T08:52:55.522-05:00

Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul and they are both broke. Biggest Ponzi schemes of ALL TIME....

TIFs: Taking Income From Suckers

2015-02-10T23:14:02.698-05:00

TIFs: Taking Income From Suckers

It's funny how this hasn't shown up in the...

2015-02-10T20:51:22.285-05:00

It's funny how this hasn't shown up in the local media yet. Anyone out there think that's just a coincidence?

I admire Hicks for publishing this. He had to know...

2015-02-10T20:51:04.468-05:00

I admire Hicks for publishing this. He had to know there was a steep risk of backlash from politicians, especially in Indy, who financially benefit from these shady deals. A lot of his research center's funding comes from the statehouse so I hope this doesn't come back to bite him. He's spoken and written against TIFs and government subsidies for development in the past - and I agree with many of his conclusions from an economics standpoint. He's well respected in this state. All we need is a cheerleader to keep the conversation going.

Does anyone know who funded the study? I didn't see anything on the BSU-CBER website.

What did Carmel do to itself?

2015-02-10T19:50:13.628-05:00

What did Carmel do to itself?

The original author of Indiana's TIFF legislat...

2015-02-10T18:46:06.879-05:00

The original author of Indiana's TIFF legislation (~40 years ago), a capable economist, is opposed to them now & the abuses to which they lend themselves; pilfering the public treasury, crony socialism, etc.

I can assure you this shocking report will receive...

2015-02-10T18:36:45.260-05:00

I can assure you this shocking report will receive the highest possible action by our Elected Officials from State Offices on down. I am sure right now the plan is in the works to rectify the problem - which Ball State for publicly exposing this sham.

The only question I have is how quick will the Crony-Capitalist Establishment try to retaliate against Ball State??

Did Ball State just Scoop the The Star?? Maybe The Star will make a passing mention of it. If The Star makes any mention of the Ball State Report, they will counter balance it with plenty of unscientific B.S. from the Crony-Capitalists.

Seriously, this whole idea of TIFs, never did make any sense.

Your readers might be interested to discover that ...

2015-02-10T11:13:03.222-05:00

Your readers might be interested to discover that Keystone at the Crossing is a TIF.

Glad you posted this, Gary. It's instructive ...

2015-02-10T08:25:14.363-05:00

Glad you posted this, Gary. It's instructive to see hard data challenging the supposed value of TIFs. More fundamentally, though, I disagree that government should be in the business of picking winners, whether geographically or by industry.

What a surprise: "Study Finds TIFs Useless As...

2015-02-10T08:15:09.062-05:00

What a surprise: "Study Finds TIFs Useless As Economic Development Tool".