Commissioners Hagan and Dimora know the words and The Plain Dealer is providing the music to the latest “fleece the taxpayers for their own good” notion. The spinmeisters have started the push to get an increase in sales tax to finance a medical mart, something that private interests could afford to build themselves. If the Commissioners go forward without the O.K. of voters(which is what they’d love to do) they should be booted out of office for their arrogant, self-important attitudes.
Blayne Vilk
This article appears in Jun 27 – Jul 3, 2007.
How about not raising the taxes and passing an opportunity to have a vital, active downtown? Three years from now there’ll be posts about how our leadership has not created anything new and we need change. It seems shortsighted to dismiss a tax because it is a tax. A small price to pay to ensure our hotels and restaurants and hotdog stands and theaters are full . . .
What are your suggestions for attracting people downtown? Love to hear them.
Perhaps we should pass around a petition to get a reduction of the sales tax by 1.25% onto the next ballot.
Perhaps these guys have too much money.
Perhaps real economic development comes from shrinking government–putting it on a stringent diet, to make things more contextual here–and keeping the money in the hands of the taxpayers, and letting them decide how to allocate financial assets.
There’s a MeetTheBloggers/CoolCleveland session at the downtown Cleveland Public Library Auditorium at noon on July 12th that promises to be a true public forum.