Comments on: You Paid For It http://opencda.com/?p=5164 Honest information. Rational discussion. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Gary Ingram http://opencda.com/?p=5164&cpage=1#comment-8045 Gary Ingram Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:08:55 +0000 http://opencda.com/?p=5164#comment-8045 A rhetorical question Mary, but I'll play along in the same format. Others may want to play as well. Limit it to three, best or worst. Worst case scenarios: 1. Legislators will adopt The Industry Omnibus Bill with little or no modification. 2. The Industry will add even more self serving provisions to the Industry Omnibus Bill. 3. Taxation without representation will continue. A rhetorical question Mary, but I’ll play along in the same format. Others may want to play as well. Limit it to three, best or worst.

Worst case scenarios:

1. Legislators will adopt The Industry Omnibus Bill with little or no modification.
2. The Industry will add even more self serving provisions to the Industry Omnibus Bill.
3. Taxation without representation will continue.

]]> By: mary http://opencda.com/?p=5164&cpage=1#comment-8044 mary Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:45:29 +0000 http://opencda.com/?p=5164#comment-8044 What are the worst case scenarios, Gary? What are the worst case scenarios, Gary?

]]> By: Gary Ingram http://opencda.com/?p=5164&cpage=1#comment-8043 Gary Ingram Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:53:10 +0000 http://opencda.com/?p=5164#comment-8043 The House Revenue and Taxation sub committee charged with the task of making recommendations on the package of Urban Renewal bills dissolved themselves last week and reorganized as a "task force". This process results in a less than open meeting scenario where "informal discussions" can be held exclusively among committee members. Problem is they have held several of these meetings in a conference room, not a committee hearing room. The only notice is through committee announcements. Problem also is the public can observe if they happen to know of the meetings schedule. Big problem is the lobbyists for Urban Renewal Industry (those who make their life earnings and career off of the taxpayers) are there in force and participating to insure their interests are embedded. Best case scenarios: 1. The legislators will not cave in and dissolve with no recommendation. 2. The legislators will recommend some of corrective amendments sponsored by members of the committee and ignore The Industry. 3. The legislators will punt into a summer interim study to find out what TAXPAYERS want. The House Revenue and Taxation sub committee charged with the task of making recommendations on the package of Urban Renewal bills dissolved themselves last week and reorganized as a “task force”. This process results in a less than open meeting scenario where “informal discussions” can be held exclusively among committee members. Problem is they have held several of these meetings in a conference room, not a committee hearing room. The only notice is through committee announcements. Problem also is the public can observe if they happen to know of the meetings schedule. Big problem is the lobbyists for Urban Renewal Industry (those who make their life earnings and career off of the taxpayers) are there in force and participating to insure their interests are embedded.

Best case scenarios:
1. The legislators will not cave in and dissolve with no recommendation.
2. The legislators will recommend some of corrective amendments sponsored by members of the committee and ignore The Industry.
3. The legislators will punt into a summer interim study to find out what TAXPAYERS want.

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