Comments on: Paging all COMIDA experts - Answer this question http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/ turning the tide upstate Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:37:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: rochesterturning.com: turning the tide upstate http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-104490 rochesterturning.com: turning the tide upstate Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:02:52 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-104490 [...] I asked the question in a previous post how much does it cost? [...] [...] I asked the question in a previous post how much does it cost? [...]

]]> By: stlo7 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103921 stlo7 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:58:32 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103921 Yeah, the one that slaps you upside the head Yeah, the one that slaps you upside the head

]]> By: rochesterturning.com: turning the tide upstate http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103765 rochesterturning.com: turning the tide upstate Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:10:19 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103765 [...] think reader Bigboy, in the comments of a previous post it is on the head with regards to a comment about corporate welfare …Same [...] [...] think reader Bigboy, in the comments of a previous post it is on the head with regards to a comment about corporate welfare …Same [...]

]]> By: publius http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103283 publius Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:33:28 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103283 Maybe COMIDA is the invisible hand Smith spoke of... Maybe COMIDA is the invisible hand Smith spoke of…

]]> By: Jon Greenbaum http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103274 Jon Greenbaum Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:56:31 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103274 What are the costs? Bonds are tax free. So that means that revenue is not being collected on the loan. Kinda indirect but it does speak to the fact that bonds are not free of harm to government. The question is whether floating the bond benefits the community sufficiently. Another point- there are lots of privates schools in the area, all competing with each other for private school tuition dollars. Why would the county intervene in this marketplace and favor one school over another, thereby providing it a competitive advantage over the others. When I once pointed this out to Hurlbut, one of the COMIDA board members, he spluttered that COMIDA helps the free market. I tried to explain that COMIDA is interventionist in the market, something that is antithetical to free market precepts, and that I agreed with him that the free market was flawed and needed much regulation and stimulation. I was wasting my time. He wasn't getting it. What are the costs? Bonds are tax free. So that means that revenue is not being collected on the loan. Kinda indirect but it does speak to the fact that bonds are not free of harm to government. The question is whether floating the bond benefits the community sufficiently.

Another point- there are lots of privates schools in the area, all competing with each other for private school tuition dollars. Why would the county intervene in this marketplace and favor one school over another, thereby providing it a competitive advantage over the others.

When I once pointed this out to Hurlbut, one of the COMIDA board members, he spluttered that COMIDA helps the free market. I tried to explain that COMIDA is interventionist in the market, something that is antithetical to free market precepts, and that I agreed with him that the free market was flawed and needed much regulation and stimulation. I was wasting my time. He wasn’t getting it.

]]> By: Bigboy http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103218 Bigboy Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:43:27 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103218 Same thing with Seabreeze - a family run business that is not going anyhere. Or Manning and Napier - a highly successful multiBILLION dollar money manager that got funds to move from downtown to Woodcliff. Or Mid-town athletic, a franchise that happens to want to Clay tennis courts at taxpayers expense. Get real Comida!!!!!!! Same thing with Seabreeze - a family run business that is not going anyhere. Or Manning and Napier - a highly successful multiBILLION dollar money manager that got funds to move from downtown to Woodcliff. Or Mid-town athletic, a franchise that happens to want to Clay tennis courts at taxpayers expense. Get real Comida!!!!!!!

]]> By: publius http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103214 publius Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:25:21 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103214 Agreed. Conservatives are forever yelping about government handouts and the need for unfettered competition. Agreed. Conservatives are forever yelping about government handouts and the need for unfettered competition.

]]> By: dennis o'brien http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103151 dennis o'brien Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:36:28 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2008/01/14/paging-all-comida-experts-answer-this-question/#comment-103151 you posed the very statement i would make on this topic: would harley relocate without the incentive? obviously not, so why help them out? isn't the big knock on public schools that they go running to the gov't and taxpayers for more money all the time? that running it privately makes it like a business and thus makes it good because all busineses are well run, cost effective and add value to society? it is amazing how two faced this situation is. you posed the very statement i would make on this topic: would harley relocate without the incentive? obviously not, so why help them out? isn’t the big knock on public schools that they go running to the gov’t and taxpayers for more money all the time? that running it privately makes it like a business and thus makes it good because all busineses are well run, cost effective and add value to society? it is amazing how two faced this situation is.

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