This is something like the remonstrance I have signed and am sending to people in Vigo County. If you would like me to send an attachment for you to copy send me your email and I will send the attachment. My email is edgluck2@yahoo.com. The abatement is $1,000,000 over ten years according to the Tribune-Star.
REMONSTRANCE AGAINST THE TAX ABATEMENT FOR THE STAPLES WAREHOUSE IMPROVEMENT
MARCH 27, 2006
To the Honorable County Council of the County of Vigo:
We the subscribers, citizens of the said County, have taken into serious consideration the proposed tax abatement for the Staples warehouse in the Vigo County Industrial Park.
1. Because we hold our Indiana Constitution sacred, we refer the Commissioners and County Council to Article I Section 23. Equal privileges and immunities Section 23. The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.
2. Because we believe the tax abatement mentioned above discriminates against all non special businesses, the tax abatement violates the spirit of our State of Indiana.
3. Because this tax abatement does not apply equally to all businesses in
Vigo County, it creates a hardship on all places of business required to
pay their fair share.
We the subscribers, oppose this tax abatement for the Staples warehouse. We do this to establish more firmly the liberties, the prosperity and the happiness of our County of Vigo.
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Search my blog for "tax abatements = jobs scams". It will refer you to a site about a book by a socialist that shows these companies will build for the infrastructure and education of the workforce. If money is offered they will take it. People like Paul O'Neal (a Republican)are quoted and these people I trust. It is especially a waste of money when their plant is already here.
1) These companies choose the location based mainly on two factors: infrastructure and an educated available workforce.
2) Tax abatements are something companies take but are not necessary. It's the added bonus. The Redevelopment Commissions with Mr. Lambert making 90K for heading the city's (shouldn't be involved in this package) redistribute money for their favorite people. So these abatements suggest to many voters that the Redevelopment Commission is doing its job of bringing in jobs and business.
3) What do these abatements really do? The oldest abatement programs started in Mississippi in the Depression. Mississippi can't bribe its way to prosperity and neither has or will Terre Haute. (Terre Haute has lost over 3000 residents in the last 5 years.)
4) Lower tax rates for all businesses will not only bring business but won't drive off the ones we have now. As you alluded to, the profits realized from tax abatements to corporations are spread to the share holders, leaving Vigo County with the bills.
5) This is unfair to other businesses. Bill Bryant told me that all businesses get abatements depending on jobs created but this does not include retailers. So the pizza joint and Krogers (and yes even Walmart) do not get tax abatements. (The thinking has to do with "a livable wage")
My contention is that I know a guy (not in Vigo County) who put in a concrete slab for a porch and had to pay higher taxes on his home. It looks to me as if million dollar corporations get tax abatements and smaller companies don't. I believe home owners and workers will be subsidizing the corporations on the local and state levels to go along with the subsidies on the Federal level. Did you know a U.S. corporation is insured to build out of this country for $250,000? This is paid for by poor people. McDonalds is paid to advertise abroad partly from your tax dollars. The Remonstrance is a statement against Corporate Welfare. In Jefferson's day it was called Mercantilism. In Lincoln's day it was called the American System. It is stealing from the poor to enrich the wealthy.
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