At 12:56 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:33:11AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>>
>> However malls generally don't take state money, the flow is in the
>> other direction. My house's yard, the whole neighborhood was
>> "approved", "licensed", "regulated", "zoned" by all kinds of
>> bureaushits,
>> and pinks would say I receive benefits by virtue of using roads (etc)
>> but that doesn't
>> mean some random taxpayer can plant a sign on my lawn.
> Are you sure there weren't TIFs involved in building the mall? The
mall here
>in Oshkosh (now defunct, turned into offices) was build with city
money, the
>newest upscale condo being built downtown is mostly TIF money, likewise
the
>newest big "low rent" housing development.
While I'd personally love to screw over the Crossroads pinheads, I'm
also wary
of letting the creeping socialism make everything public. The solution
is to stop
creeping socialism (such as the tax-subsidies others have implied for
Crossroads,
or the documented government funding of arenas) so the line
is clear. The risk is "unlawful taking" otherwise.
Meanwhile, I'm disinclined to start applying GNU-license-virulence
to what is public and what is not, because of the depth and breadth of
the financial tentacles.
Besides, the publicity has been great. I was told that after it made
news, 150 women wearing
the same T-shirts showed up at the mall. The security guards locked
themselves in their offices.
Probably messed their pants, too.
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\{conspiracy} Funny that that area of upstate NY is where Ritter lives,
and was quieted recently. \{endconspiracy}
