Where is my "free government dirt"???
This entry was posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:45 AM and is filed under rants.
Lowes is coming. That is fine and good, I plan on buying 50 zillion business cards and leaving them every 2 feet in there every night.
The City Council voted to give them 1 million dollars toward site prep. Where is my money from the city for site prep? Is it really a legitimate function of government to give tax payer money to privately held business? NO. It is not.
The city says they will receive the money back within a year from the sales tax collections, guess what they would have received the same taxes and they didn't even have to give the money away.
So instead of breaking even in a year they would have been up a million dollars. Good grief, if Lowes wants to build a store here, they will build a store here, if they don't believe there is a market they won't build in the first place. Giving them money to do something they were already going to do is just asinine.
We had 3 hardware/lumber yards in town already, who have been contributing to the community for 30 plus years did the city ever give them money to use for their private enterprise, no and they shouldn't have, nor should they now.
