[Vision2020] Re: Co-op pays some taxes

[Phil Nisbet]

LOL, yeah right!  Lets see, stray Jewish Geologist that I am, who exactly do 
you recommend I suggest it to Tom?

And here I thought your battle cry of Not On the Palouse, Not Ever, was for 
real.  Hey everybody, Tom Hansen and his wife shop CC Bookstores?

Phil Nisbet

>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: "'Phil Nisbet'" <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>, <london at moscow.com>
>CC: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Re: Co-op pays some taxes
>Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:27:00 -0700
>
>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
>
>
>

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