[Vision2020] Re: Co-op pays some taxes

[Phil Nisbet]

Bill

I started to write a zippy reply that would continue the basic false premise 
here, that these particular arguements are more important than first causes.

If the CCer's closed down NSA, set up a CC Bookstore in its location, paid 
all their taxes and equiped it with a parking garage, you would find 
something else to insist was the root of all evil in civil government with 
respect to them.

So trying to turn the debate, as I have tried to do, into a discussion of 
zoning and economic development, some sort of actual future for this 
community that does no involve the latest political assault phase, is a 
train wreck from day one.

Neither NSA or the Co-op are going to provide taxes sufficient to have a 
city government.  All the focus on who should or should not be allowed in 
downtown is a waste of valued time and energy and nothing more than two 
groups waging political battle.  And as you two confilicting groups wage war 
over the infrastucture, the ship of Moscow's state is heading rudderless 
into the shoals.

So is the dog fight more important than basic economic development?  Do you 
seriously think that the closing down of NSA and Logos and the rest will 
result in a utopian nirvana established right here in the Palouse?  Wages 
will instantly jump and businesses will flourish if Doug Wilson is finally 
gone from town?

Phil Nisbet


>From: "Bill London" <london at moscow.com>
>To: "Phil Nisbet" <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>
>CC: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: Co-op pays taxes
>Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:34:09 -0700
>
>P-
>I have no idea why you seem to be so confused by this issue.
>Here is my summary:
>Why Co-op belongs downtown:
>1. pays all taxes, including property tax through rent to landowner
>2. is a retail business, and an anchor store to downtown (2002 Latah
>Economic Dev. Council research showed that the Co-op was the #1 destination
>for shoppers downtown year-round)
>3.Co-op provides off-street parking for staff and customers
>Why NSA does not belong downtown:
>1. does not pay property tax (at least, did not until Saundra Lund and Rose
>Huskey unmasked their illegal tax plan)
>2. is not a retail business
>3. uses public parking places that results in downtown customers shopping
>elsewhere.
>BL

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