[Vision2020] Taxpayers hold the key

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Visionaries:
 
I have a passing interest in property tax and NSA.  Saundra Lund and I  have 
spent considerable time over the past year thinking about it, asking  
questions (get that part, Donovan?), and apparently, learning more about its  claim to 
non-profit status than its current president.   Nonetheless,  I must thank 
Vision 2020 poster, Mr. Mail, for his very astute description of  the expansion 
of NSA until, at some point the population of  that center of learning  will 
spill over and run down the gutters of  Main Street.  
 
"It is important to note that NSA's future growth is not merely  
hypothetical. It is a coming reality. NSA has expanded from 4 students when it  was first 
founded to over 140 students in the last year. Now, when NSA gets  
accreditation (which will occur most likely in the next year or two), that  expansion 
will be uninhibited in a new way. With each student paying over $6000  a year in 
tuition, the college will be able to expand it's campus in the  downtown."
 
I guess that might make some kirkish hearts beat faster, it makes me  want to 
vomit.  Additional property tax loss to Latah County - that's  certainly 
nothing to cheer about.
 
And now, we have Donovan's thoughtful remarks about how he sees students in  
NSA uniforms (what uniforms ???? do you mean those pretentious little Harry  
Potter dresses, just like they wear in a "real" British universities) pop  in 
and out of shops like clever jacks-in-the-boxes - doing their little  
businesses?  What in the world does that have to do with anything?  A  pack of gum 
here, a steno pad there, yes, I know it all adds up....
 
How bout this for a novel idea?  No more zoning "mistakes," and lots  more 
retail and service outlets, preferably locally owned, in the central  business 
district.  
 
Rose  Huskey

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you  have found out the exact
amount of injustice and wrong which will be  imposed upon them; and these 
will continue until they are resisted with either  words or blows, or both. The 
limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance  of those whom they oppress." 
Frederick  Douglass
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