IS IT TRUE JANUARY 30, 2017

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IS IT TRUE that Evansville City Council Finance Chairman Dan McGinn requested that City Attorney Josh Claybourn research State law governing the Indiana Local Option Income Tax and Homestead Tax Credits? …the reason for the Mr. Claybourn research is to help Council to find extra money to help reduce the 2016 employee health insurance shortfall?…actions like this become urgent because of years of doing the wrong thing?…if present and past City Council members made the appropriate allocations of local tax dollars to cover our contractual obligations during the last decade, the urgency of today would not be an urgency at all?…the same mindset that sits back and allows the infrastructure to decay while spending freely on fun and games was hard at work in deferring these legitimate expenses?

IS IT TRUE that Council President Missy Mosby and Finance Chairman Dan McGinn have not only been collaborating to eliminate our Homestead Tax Credit but to increase our Local Option Income Tax in order to catch up on unpaid General Fund debt for 2016 and 2017?…this is another urgency that was years in the making?…tax increases happen naturally with reassessment on an annual basis?…at least they do in a growing thriving economy?…both of these tax increases will be permanent and both are urgent because the City Council’s of the past have failed in the budgeting obligations?

IS IT TRUE we wonder if Mayor Winnecke, Council President Missy Mosby and Councilman Jonathan Weaver are going to sponsor another “we love our law enforcement” rally on the Civic Center steps this coming March?  …considering how they treated members of our local law enforcement during the last budget cycle we recommend that they don’t?

IS IT TRUE that after the unauthorized transfer of the Tropicana’s future income advance of $12,500,000 from the Riverboat fund to deposit into General Fund? …once again this is a case of mortgaging the future to cover the perceived need to fund fun and games initiatives today?…the legacy of buying a new car on credit while letting the toilet leak inside the trailer with a hole in the roof has caught up with the Evansville City Council of 2017?

IS IT TRUE that shortfalls of cash are exacerbated by the failure of the sports teams that play in Ford Center to draw the crowds they were budgeted to draw?..the quality of hockey has degraded and the wins have been few and far between since the Evansville Icemen left town? …the attendance is predictably down as happens when the home team can manage to win?…the Evansville Purple Aces after having a great year in 2016 are back to the cellar of the Missouri Valley Conference with one win and eight losses?…what is true about ticket sales is that winning sells tickets?…it does not matter if the winning team plays in Ford Center, Roberts Stadium, or a big pole barn, winning is the only way to fill large arenas?

IS IT TRUE that last week former City Councilman President and Finance Chairman  John Friend-CPA stated “if you think that City of Evansville experienced major financial shortfalls in 2016 just wait and see what the 2017 budget year has in store for them”?    …he told us that the 2017 budget year will be a financial disaster?  …in case you need to be reminded that Mr. Friend was spot on about his predictions about the budget shortfall for the budget years 2015 and 2016?

IS IT TRUE considering  the financial crisis facing the City of Evansville would you have voted to fund a new and expensive “penguin” display at the Zoo this year?

IS IT TRUE that the majority of our present City Council members and the Mayor are nothing more than  ‘Tax and Spend” libels?

FOOTNOTE: Todays “Readers Poll” question is:  Do you support Evansville City Council increasing our Local Option Income Tax?

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13 COMMENTS

  1. This shouldn’t be a surprise. Safe Seat Butterfly McGinn declared himself going in. What a guy. Butterflies (particularly Monarchs) & penguins, you just can’t really have enough of either. These folks are scrambling now. We will pay for their pipe dreams, ineptitude and malfeasance. Esquire Claybourn will guide them through it.

    • Jeb of Warrick is figuring out how to raise the taxes of City of Evansville residents?

  2. Wow ..our safety personnel believe that $600,000 was spent on Penguins while their health insurance costs wiped out their raises and then some ..but wait this is only a small down payment ..the cost of construction will surpass 10 million ..of course this does not include the maintenance cost ..

    Old Butterfly McGinn at his best ..remember when Weinzapfel shit canned him over the screw up concerning his flower pot (Amazonian) Cost the taxpayers’ $283,000 ..then to top it off . .increased the Zoo maintenance cost by $900,000 per year. Old Zoolander McGinn ..Penguins before Public Safety.

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    Jaw Dropping – Mexican Official Threatens to Unleash Cartels, Flood U.S. With Drugs and Narcotics….

    theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/01/29/jaw-dropping-mexican-official-threatens-to-unleash-cartels-flood-u-s-with-drugs-and-narcotics/

  4. Just a bad day to stop drinking!!! Now since the commissioners apparently beat ol yeller to the punch in regards to increasing our income taxes, we all should wonder if her and Weaver the Weasel will be sponsoring any more “We Support You” rallies in front of the Civic Center concerning the police. IS IT TRUE that allegedly both these clowns have been barred from the FOP putting an end to their compped adult beverages. If this is the case, perhaps this is why Winnecke sat up a bar tab at ECC for ol Yeller’s benefit.

    • I thought ol yeller as you call her was persona non grate at ECC for failure to pay membership dues ? Are you sho bout dis ?

  5. Great job today, CCO. Lots of food for thought.
    Wonder how much the shortfall in the fairy tale income generated by the TIF zones have affected the financial dilemma.? If taxes are assessed and collected according to law, the TIF tax fund should be in negative territory.

  6. Wonder how much the County voters rejection of the City-backed Unified/Consolidated Government plan has to do with the City Council’s refusal to support the County’s proposed LIT increase?

  7. I thought only lobbyists maintained apartments in the capital hill area of Washington, D.C., where a two bedroom apartment goes on average for $2,500. to $2,700. a month on an annual lease. I am confused as to someone’s current status.

  8. The fabled Iranian deal negotiated by Obama and John Kerry including the ransom payments, let’s see how that is working out:

    IRAN TESTS BALLISTIC MISSILE IN DEFIANCE OF UN RESOLUTION, OFFICIALS TELL FOX NEWS

  9. Feel free to delete “Islamic State” and insert “Main Stream Media” or “Liberals” into the start of this article:

    Islamic State sympathizers and militants predictably reacted angrily to President Donald Trump’s temporary halt on refugees while the government revamps its flawed security screening process.

    Breitbart Jerusalem obtained access to correspondence posted in a closed chat group that utilizes the encrypted Telegram messaging service. The chat group serves as an internal Twitter of sorts for IS jihadists and sympathizers, and it has been used in the past to issue IS communications.

    “The madman Trump is still ignorant of politics, science and culture,” IS supporter Abu Maslama wrote to his associates on the Telegram app. “That Islam-hating Crusader prevents Muslims from entering America. That failed Nazi thinks that this will stop the mujahedeen from striking his country. Doesn’t he understand that his country will implode? When that happens, he’ll panic and backpedal on his Islam-hating policies.”

    http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/01/30/exclusive-islamic-state-supporters-react-angrily-trumps-temporary-refugee-halt/

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