I have been watching this with intrigue.
This is the first time a TIF has been put up to a vote EVER in the state. I think any TIF over $10 Million should get voter approval, it should also get county approval. I find the coalition of right/left leaning folks who gathered the 5K sigs in 20 days remarkable. If they can get that many sigs in RC in 20 days, that tells me the voters will kill this by a large margin. The astonishing thing is EVEN if the $125 million dollar TIF is eliminated by the voters, this f’ing amusement park will still receive over $60 million in other tax incentives, yet the state couldn’t figure out SNAP or TANF. TIFs have gotten ridiculous, but they have always been. Where were these lawmakers 10 or 20 years ago? The research was out there that they don’t work, yet you let taxpayers get rolled for decades while bailing out developer welfare queens. I guess I am happy there is FINALLY opposition to TIFs statewide, but what took yah so damn long!!!!!!?????
Leave it to Rapid to lead on this issue. Rapid has always had a more libertarian quality about it than SF, definitely less corporate. AND, oh, it’s always fun to run this video once again:
FF: 08:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bl19RoR7lc
Mamdani and Trump will soon meet in the Oval Office. That ought to be a good one.
( and Woodstock adds: “Say Mamdani should dress like Zelensky just to piss off Trump” …. 🙂 )
VSG
This would be a nice look;
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/stalin-joseph/
You know, back in the late 1960s, that “Stalin look” was in with shirts and was often associated with Mao, but Nehru of India also used to wear them, so it was fashionable back then (or more politically correct) to call them in the States the Nehru collar shirt (He wasn’t a commie). AND, I had one, and I believe my 2nd-grade picture (1968) was taken with me wearing one, too 😉 #AlwaysAGoodTroubleMaker 🙂
having the government give the developers a tif is socialism, not “freedom”.