You Tax All to Support Downtown Des Moines

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“I do live in Urbandale and I am for Yes to Destiny. I have stated my cause in previous posts during my discussion with Speeder so I don't feel that I need to do so again. That said, I am with Hawk on this...downtown DSM proper needs to have a regional focus to collect the necessary funds to continue to grow and prosper. If you look at any major metropolitan area tax forms like this are in place because everyone in the region uses the items where the taxes are directed. Look at Blank Park Zoo...you can't say that the average Joe in Grimes doesn't benefit from having the zoo in DSM, not to mention the option to go see a game at WF arena…”

Ok. That elephant in the corner has finally been uncovered. This PD tax is for the good of the city. All other Polk County, and Warren County, and Dallas County projects are secondary to downtown projects. Gee, maybe with the passage of PD the loft lovers of downtown Des Moines can be granted an extension of their property tax abatement to 15 years for their little apartments in the sky.
Or maybe they wish to have a lifetime extension of the property tax abatement. After all, downtown Des Moines is so very important to the rest of us hicks too stupid to appreciate the culture made possible by income confiscation.

Gee, maybe with enough tax money a training program for the un-employed could be created…so long as that program benefited a city council member or two, or three.
There remains a lot of onion to be peeled.

Kudos to the DSM Register for making the first few cuts to expose this idiocy of yet another tax.
Whodda thunk?