[Vision2020] RE: my suggestions for next school bond

[Bill London]

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Of course, whenever tax money is spent, someone benefits.  That was not my point.  I referred to the huge windfall of having the taxpayers spend about $4million for roads, sewers, etc that those local landowners will not have to spend were they going to develop their land....
I wasn't interested in seeing my money used in that manner
BL
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tbertruss at aol.com 
  To: kjajmix1 at msn.com ; london at moscow.com 
  Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 12:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] RE: my suggestions for next school bond


  All:

  Bill London wrote:

  "The owners of undeveloped
  land near that high school site would reap a financial bonanza (they would
  not have to pay for development costs) and I would be helping pay for it.
  Not good."

  Bill, correct me if I'm wrong, but these land owners near the proposed new high school site pay property taxes that go to support MSD, so at least in part they would pay for the development that would happen if the proposed high school went forward.  Besides, you are opposed to your taxes benefiting landowners in the context of a debate on public education?  Even a remodel of the old Moscow High School might use your tax dollars for the financial benefit of land owners in this area of Moscow if the remodeled high school raised their property values do to making the downtown area more of a valued destination for shopping and business.  Would you also object to this?  

  I can see the logic in wanting to stop sprawl via keeping the high school downtown, but any publicly funded construction is going to use tax dollars that will benefit someone or some business at taxpayers expense.

  Ted Moffett



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