Sunday, April 6, 2014

Rick Bryan's $75 million park

Dear fellow tax hikers, one of the many things we love about Blue Ash Councilman Rick Bryan is his dedication to spending gobs of taxpayer money on huge projects that raises taxes and/or debt for many decades.  For example, Rick provided key support to help fund the Cincinnati Streetcar, and praised former Commissioner Bob Bedinghaus for his excellent work on the stadiums.

And now, Tax Hikin' Rick Bryan is leading the way to build a $75 million park in Blue Ash.  That's right - one park, $75 million.


Even we find this cost to be astonishing!  Astonishingly great, of course. 

Blue Ash has approximately 12,000 residents.  This park is costing the equivalent of $6200 per Blue Ash resident.

If our 2011 Tax Hiker of the Year Rick Bryan gets elected State Representative and embarks on a parks program statewide on this scale, it would cost Ohio $71 Billion.  By comparison, Ohio's entire 2-year General Fund budget for FY2014-2015 is $62 Billion.  That would require one huge tax hike!

And if our country started a parks program on the same scale Rick is doing in Blue Ash, it would add $1.9 Trillion to our National Debt!  Raising taxes, spending an Earth-shattering amount on big projects like stadiums, streetcars, and $75 million parks - that's our Tax Hikin' Rick Bryan.

11 comments:

Baby Boy Blessing said...

Rick, buddy, I can't WAIT to have you I the legislature with me. Sounds like you love parks eve more than I do.

28th District Voter said...

It's a good thing all the Republicans are lining up behind Rick Bryan and not the Tea Party interloper. I just wish the people could be even more appreciative of all the taxes Rick has raised and all the great things he has done with your hard-earned money.

I'm glad that Tea Party interloper has absolutely no support whatsoever and we can enshrine Rick in the Statehouse where he can raise taxes across Ohio.

Ghost of Stadium Past said...

A $75 million park? Really Rick? Rick Bryan is the most wasteful-spending politician since Bob Bedinghaus.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said...

I would fully support a $2 Trillion Parks Program. Rick Bryan for Congress!

Anonymous said...

flushing money down the drain along with Blue Ash's aviation legacy. A two-fer!

Sycamore Sam said...

From what I can tell across the 28th, the Republicans have had it with the Tea Party and aren't interested in nominating yet another extremist who will hand the Democrats this seat on a silver platter. This isn't going to be close. Republican primary voters are saving the party from its own inept leadership.

Poor Tom Weidman, an excellent Sycamore Township Trustee, good conservative and a great guy, who will once again be on the losing end in the 28th House District.

Sycamore Steve said...

Sycamore Sam is saying we should nominate a tax-and-spend Republican like Virgil Lovitt. And how did that go? Virg got smoked 55-45. If we nominate Rick Bryan we'll get the same result

Greed Township Republicans said...

When Rick Bryan gets to the Statehouse, will he help our neighbors to the north clean up their trash-infested, oil-fouled ghetto of a township? That's a place which could use lots and lots of state funds for a park and a whole lot of other clean-up programs.

Krystal said...

Rick is my kind of Republican. He understands pay to play access for us nouveau-riche common folks.

The HIgh Tax Adamecs said...

We fully approve.

craig hochscheid said...

Well, I'll eat the money if he doesn't spend it! Or just use it to supplement my alcoholism.