[Vision2020] Re: Co-op pays some taxes

[Tom Hansen]

Mr. Nisbet stated:

"If the CCer's closed down NSA, set up a CC Bookstore in its location, paid
all their taxes and equipped it with a parking garage . . . "

I cannot speak on behalf of Bill London.  Although I feel that he would
agree with me when I say:

I would be impressed, pleased, and more than satisfied that the owners of
the CC Bookstore are showing a sense of community.  I, and my wife (who is a
bookaholic), would even browse its inventory.

Have you thought of suggesting this proposal?  I would strongly support it.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will
stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving
path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so
far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

-Sir Winston Churchill

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Phil Nisbet
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 3:15 PM
To: london at moscow.com
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Re: Co-op pays some taxes

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