[Vision2020] Taxpayers hold the key

[New man]

Rose,

It is sad that NSA makes you want to vomit. I pray God would soften your
heart.

Now, I must respond to your lack of understanding of how property taxes
work. When (not if) NSA begins buying more property in the downtown, it
will result in property values going up. Increased demand = increased
prices. When property prices increase downtown--not only directly from
NSA's bidding, but also indirectly by well cared-for buildings occupied
by clean well groomed students who exemplify dignity and respect--so do
property taxes. The amount of property taxes paid by downtown land owners
is directly tied to the value of downtown land. Thus, NSA's downtown
growth, far from decreasing Moscow's tax base, will actually expand it.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: DonaldH675 at aol.com
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com
  Subject: [Vision2020] Taxpayers hold the key
  Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:44:23 EDT

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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