Comments on Advance Indiana™: Star Editorial Lies To Public On CIB Bailout Proposal

Norman Cox just reported on WRTV news that 'th...

2009-08-10T17:09:34.561-05:00

Norman Cox just reported on WRTV news that 'the $47M deficit has ballooned to $60M' which is attributed to shortfall in the existing hotel/beverage tax.

If ever there was a CLEAR INDICATOR that yet another tax is NOT the answer, this is it.

If the CCC pegs the 'fix' onto raising the tax tonight, they'll be back to raise it again in a year or two or three.

It's an immutable law of politics - the current taxes are never enough.

It is time for a push-back or smack-down of these ...

2009-08-10T13:49:01.117-05:00

It is time for a push-back or smack-down of these rogue development organizations. They operate without concern for taxpayer burden, make wild estimates of their worthiness (talk about conflict of interest!) and have always had pretty much carte blanche with their ideas.

Time for them to be pressed into really fixing their messes, not just whining and wheedling for a tax increase time and time again.

Michael, you can cancel your Star subscription now...

2009-08-10T12:02:46.059-05:00

Michael, you can cancel your Star subscription now and get a refund. THAT sends a message.

The Star will just endorse all incumbants save one...

2009-08-10T11:47:23.185-05:00

The Star will just endorse all incumbants save one token, no matter what, just as they always do. Its really hit or miss as to what stance they'll take on any one issue. Sometimes liberal, sometimes puritanical. Sometimes they have good logic, other times you just shake your head in bewilderment.

I, though, will keep my subscription as it is a habit tougher than cigarettes to break. Until they go belly up, I'll be reading over breakfast.

But, on the CIB issue, the Star editorial staff is simply wrong with the facts and wrong with the conclusions.

I do always wonder how someone like a president of...

2009-08-10T11:39:24.140-05:00

I do always wonder how someone like a president of the ICVA can make more than the Governor or Mayor. So much for low pay in public service.

Ultimately, the point is always lost in articles like the one Gary has posted about that regardless of who pays the taxes ... government being used as a tool to extract money and transfer it to private interests is, except for just compensation for harm done, always wrong.

I understand that some of the folks having to make decisions about this inherited the problem but you don't fix a wrong by committing another wrong - you know, two of them doesn't make right they say.

I have been a subscriber to the Star since I moved...

2009-08-10T10:50:45.027-05:00

I have been a subscriber to the Star since I moved to Indiana for law school in 1982. When it comes up for renewal this November, I am going to pass. I feel bad for my excellent Star carrier, but the Star has just gone of the deep end the last 5 years or so. Way too far left and pro-government.

Must be cuz the publishers aren't local anymore.

Plus, I get the most informative news coverage from the Franklin Daily Journal (I live in Greenwood).

And ICVA president, Don Welsh's $375k salary. ...

2009-08-10T09:14:39.221-05:00

And ICVA president, Don Welsh's $375k salary.

By the way, the ICVA president isn't from Indiana. Out of our entire population, we couldn't find someone qualified to sell Indiana that is actually from here? And there is no one qualified that would work to sell our city's conventions for less than $375 per year?

Yea, but the taxpayers HAVE to subsidize Tammie Za...

2009-08-10T08:52:40.383-05:00

Yea, but the taxpayers HAVE to subsidize Tammie Zahn's $190,000 a year salary!