Posted by Speaking Out on February 7, 2011, 5:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Pontoon Beach..."
Opi,your are spot on with your post. What I am sick and tire of here in the village is (pardon my expression please) someone pissing down my leg and trying to convince me its raining.
"TIF districts, in your case warehouses, in our case a theater are unfortunately a way of the world now. If you want development, you have to give developers breaks through taxes. Most of the time when the TIF expires, so does the business."
Everyone that I know here in the village knew this was a bad idea. But, all that was crammed down everyones throat was...all the wonderful jobs this great opportunity would create. It created nothing for our area. Nothing, but more truck traffic, ware and tare on our roads and highways.
It fattened the pockets of the temp labor service that filled very few positions. Now our roads need repair, it was a lose, lose deal.