Comments on: Now Open, but So What? http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/now-open-but-so-what.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Thu, 24 May 2012 16:17:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/now-open-but-so-what.html/comment-page-1#comment-7872 Tim Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:19:36 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=21704#comment-7872 Is "symbolic violence" like "almost pregnant"? Is “symbolic violence” like “almost pregnant”?

]]> By: Thomas Duda http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/now-open-but-so-what.html/comment-page-1#comment-7871 Thomas Duda Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:13:32 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=21704#comment-7871 I appreciate your insistence on providing a larger context for this discussion. I hope that the coming months will yield additional policy studies that put St. Louis City's business climate into sharper relief. Stay tuned. I appreciate your insistence on providing a larger context for this discussion. I hope that the coming months will yield additional policy studies that put St. Louis City’s business climate into sharper relief. Stay tuned.

]]> By: Maria http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/now-open-but-so-what.html/comment-page-1#comment-7870 Maria Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:42:50 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=21704#comment-7870 TIF for retail is a complete waste. We can agree on that. Singling out St. Louis City as a "disturbing environment" is what's ridiculous. There are many more egregious examples of "disturbing environments" for the conduct of business. TIF for retail is a complete waste. We can agree on that. Singling out St. Louis City as a “disturbing environment” is what’s ridiculous. There are many more egregious examples of “disturbing environments” for the conduct of business.

]]> By: Thomas Duda http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/now-open-but-so-what.html/comment-page-1#comment-7869 Thomas Duda Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:21:02 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=21704#comment-7869 "No reason to call out the City." Maria, I disagree, as the crux of the above post is to show the relationship between how the City <a href="http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/compare-and-contrast-lra-and.html" rel="nofollow">carves out its tax base</a> while simultaneously <a href="http://yfrog.com/j9zzlj" rel="nofollow">raising taxes</a> and <a href="http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/06/police-power-and-public-finance.html" rel="nofollow">fees</a> to support <a href="http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/06/cut-the-nonsense.html" rel="nofollow">diminishing</a> levels of service. TIF is wrong for the City, and TIF is wrong for <a href="http://www.showmeinstitute.org/publication/id.115/pub_detail.asp" rel="nofollow">the suburbs</a>. I find TIF especially objectionable, because I live in the City and am forced to pay for it. I guess we'll simply have to agree to disagree that TIF is worth the cost. “No reason to call out the City.”

Maria, I disagree, as the crux of the above post is to show the relationship between how the City carves out its tax base while simultaneously raising taxes and fees to support diminishing levels of service.

TIF is wrong for the City, and TIF is wrong for the suburbs.

I find TIF especially objectionable, because I live in the City and am forced to pay for it. I guess we’ll simply have to agree to disagree that TIF is worth the cost.

]]> By: Maria http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/now-open-but-so-what.html/comment-page-1#comment-7868 Maria Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:58:30 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=21704#comment-7868 Yeah, phew, no market distortion in the suburbs, nope, no TIF for Wal-Mart to relocate a mile down the road, no billions of dollars in federal highway to see here...what a ridiculous, assymetrical bass-ackwards view of the dreamed of free market holy grail. No reason to call out the City. The vast majority of TIF abuse and wasted subsidies occur in the County and suburbs, not the City. Yeah, phew, no market distortion in the suburbs, nope, no TIF for Wal-Mart to relocate a mile down the road, no billions of dollars in federal highway to see here…what a ridiculous, assymetrical bass-ackwards view of the dreamed of free market holy grail. No reason to call out the City. The vast majority of TIF abuse and wasted subsidies occur in the County and suburbs, not the City.

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