Dear fellow tax hikers, get ready to pay more taxes for the stadiums. Our Hamilton County Commissioners are deciding which tax to raise to give more money to Mike Brown and the Bengals and we think that's fantastic! Hamilton County's #1 priority is to enrich the Bengals and we will not allow our county government to put off that task anymore.
Commissioner Todd Portune wants to raise the Sales Tax. Commission President Greg Hartmann wants to raise your Property Taxes. Republicans for Higher Taxes wholeheartedly endorses both a Property Tax increase and Sales Tax increase.
Mike Brown needs that money. You don't. According to Forbes, the Cincinnati Bengals earned an operating income of only $44.7 million in 2011, and that's not enough. You should be willing to pay more taxes to ensure our beloved Bengals earn a sufficient income, and after this Wednesday's Commission meeting you will.
This stadium deal has been a rousing success for Hamilton County, just like Bob Bedinghaus, Stadium Dave Linnenberg, and Roxanne Qualls said it would. It made Cincinnati a "major league city", led to great economic growth, made everyone richer, cured cancer, and grew the tax base. That we need another stadium tax increase to bail out the first one is fine with us. It's time to give Mike Brown and Bob Bedinghaus more of our money. Raise those Sales Taxes and Property Taxes now.
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I'll drink to that!
Will there be a campaign to raise taxes? I can't wait to go shopping for new outfits for all these soirees I get invited to as a hard-working professional woman in politics. I've spent so much on dresses and shoes and contributed so much in stadium taxes that I should have my own luxury suite at Paul Brown Stadium by now.
I hereby propose a plan that would.... never mind, I'm not proposing jack without talking to the old man first. And since he was one of the laziest legislators in Columbus, I won't end up doing jack anyway. Smell ya later suckers!
Hire me to run the stadium sales tax hike campaign. I can't wait to put my campaign expertise to use. Despite a poor record getting people elected, I've done a great job getting taxes raised in Springdale and for the Princeton schools. Maybe if I get this stadium tax passed they'll fire Marvin Lewis and let me coach the Bengals.
High taxes is what keeps 39 year old urban streetcar snobs stuck living in the basement of their mom and dad's crappy ranch in Finneytown.
http://www.courtclerk.org/ticketsearch_results.asp?94086402X19519860
I can't pay taxes, feed my incessant alcohol intake, AND pay rent in a cool hipster urban neighborhood all at once!
Man, this stadium tax campaign will look good on my resuMe!
Hey what is this we hear about our blogger Kevin LeMaster being convicted of DWI? That's not good for our image.
http://www.courtclerk.org/case_summary.asp?sec=history&casenumber=C/12/TRC/44407
After taking 2012 off, it will be great to rev up the old Green Township Turnout Machine and show those smelly rats in that garbage-infested ghetto called Colerain Township who's boss in this county. Just give us the green light to raise taxes and we'll be ready, Alex.
Without our good friends Simon Leis and Jean Schmidt in office anymore, and with our good friend Bill Seitz just finishing his last election, we'll have plenty of money to contribute for a campaign to raise taxes. Instead of donating to tax-hiking politicians like Si, Jean, and Bill, we'll eliminate the middle man and pass the tax increase message directly to the voters.
We know that the so-called Republicans in Hamilton County are figuring out the best way for them to sell us down the river and cave to the Democrats' demands just as Butler County Republican John Boehner and his band of fellow Republicans are doing to the entire nation in Washington DC right now.
Republican "leadership" means nothing more than giving in to Democrat demands each and every time. The only thing that's taking them so long to come up with a "plan" is to figure out how to blame the Tea Party.
Perhaps Colerain Township should follow this model of tax-raising and see about raising taxes to benefit the greatest family in the history of Colerain Township: the Rumpkes.
Every time someone mentions the idea of tax hikes, my mustache starts twitching and my eyes begin to well up. Oh, how it just warms my heart each and every time someone's taxes go up.
(*&*) Alex that %^*&% Republican Chairman, now that I kicked that ^&%* green card husb*nd out of my ^&%^&%m home in Avon*&*(^dale, I have plenty of &*(&@$$% time on my #&^$ hands to &^&^ raise those ^&*%*% taxes on all those *(%^%@ slobs and ^^%^& morons I'm &*^##^&! surrounded by in this &*^*# hellhole called &*&^&# Hamilton &^%^%# County.
Is it really true that 2008 Tax Hiker of the Year Virgil Lovitt is retiring? This is terrible news, and on the heels of the Donovan and Schmidt defeats, a totally crushing event.
After my Issue 14 charter amendment in Madeira went down in flames, my completely non-political self will be looking for a new political challenge. My awesomeness knows no bounds.
I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT IN THE HOLY HELL HAS GOTTEN INTO SOME OF THESE REPUBLICAN FRIENDS OF MINE.
THERE IS JUST SO MUCH BILOUS HATRED AND POLITICAL VENOM BEING SPEWED FROM THE RIGHT WING OF THIS GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY OF OURS TOWARDS OUR TOWERING REPUBLICAN LEADERS SUCH AS SPEAKER BOEHNER AND CLOSER TO HOME OUR LEADING LUMINARIES SUCH AS MY GOOD FRIEND GREG HARTMANN, A GREAT AMERICAN IF EVER THERE WAS ONE, AND VIRGIL LOVITT AND OUTSTANDING FRIEND AND AN EVEN BETTER PUBLIC SERVANT.
LET'S FACE REALITY. TAXES NEED TO BE INCREASED IF OUR GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE GREAT SERVICES SUCH AS POLICE PROTECTION, JAILS, FIRE PROTECTION, EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, AND KEEP OUR PARKS OPEN AND OUR STREETS FROM CRUMBLING. WE HAVE FEWER PEOPLE PAYING TAXES AND MORE DEADBEATS ON WELFARE THAN EVER BEFORE.
WHAT ARE YOU COAST CLOWNS GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT NOW?
Senator Seitz - Did you say something about keeping parks open? I'm all for that!
-LB3
Hey, me and my unemployable husband are all for a Sales Tax increase, but isn't there some way they could exempt FOOD? Taxing food takes a large BITE out of our (my) income.
Is sales tax imposed on beer in Ohio?
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